Always in the Arena: “Watergate turned the 37th president into a toxic symbol, and we are only just beginning to recover.”
Atlas International: “When you have to rush to the hospital at 3AM, whose door will you knock on? Who will you ask to go into your house and get your kids and keep them safe until you’re back? I want to know the other people in my area who can be counted upon, and I think you do, too. The kind of people who want to check on our neighbors should get to know each other. We can’t live cut off from each other anymore.”
The Californication of Texas: “What makes Texas an interesting place to live is its contradictions — metropolis and country, technology and religion, wealth and poverty — and these are accelerating. So, yes: please don’t Californicate my Texas, but otherwise, let that rough beast slouch forward to be born.”
The Red Hand Files: “…history is extraordinarily complicated and rarely draws a clean line between right and wrong, good and evil. Much of history seems to be a violent collision of good intentions, and sometimes what appears ethically obvious today has its way of turning tomorrow. History reflects our shambolic nature and is seldom settled, stable, or simple.”
When You Don’t Know Me Anymore: “We come to know people. We come to love people. And in the same small blip of a glance which can initiate love, intimate companions can turn back into strangers. However they are not strangers in the truest sense. If that person were to die tomorrow you would attend their funeral and deeply mourn their passing. They are not real strangers but something else. You can never return to a place where you do not know them, you can only go to a place where you do not know them anymore. And in that manner you can only make love and let it go, but it cannot be destroyed. you can only kill it. ‘Death however is not an experience, but the boundary of all experience.'”