"Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?"

-- Philip Berrigan

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“I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.”
“I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.”

Source : "Interview with Jonathan Evison, Author of West of Here". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 31, 2011.
“Your mercies are more than your afflictions.”
“I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece. My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.”
“To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.”
“One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.”
“The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.”
“If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.”

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