Jack McDonald Burnett > Quotes

“Politics, Garrett thought. Like a food fight without the internal logic.”
― Jack McDonald Burnett, Pauper

“Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one’s own being. —Carl Jung”
― Jack McDonald Burnett, Girl on Mars

“Why don’t you make airplanes out of the same material as you make the little black boxes in the cockpit?”
― Jack McDonald Burnett, Girl on Mars

“Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus’ rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.” —George Steiner,”
― Jack McDonald Burnett, Girl on the Moon