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"If you don't hope, you can't fear. You face your moment clearheaded."

"Folks can't stand the idea that there's just as much bad in their own community as there is outside it."

"... beware of the stories you read or tell, because at night, beneath the surface of your wakefulness, they are alterin your world."

"... we come into this world wrapped up and spoken for. We gotta do somethin beyond that, unwrap ourselves, speak for someone else, at least until they can speak fer themselves."

"All our castles fall back into the sea. It's easy to forget that that's why we build them in the first place: to remember the sea."

"The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly."

"No one talks to the dead for free."

"... art is always created by the viewer, the critic, the witness. Before it is seen, it is nothing... Even if in some dark closet it existed, it would be as nothing."

"There was that busking disaster three years ago, twenty tourists killed when an unlicensed cellist inadvertently rosined her bow with C-4. So it makes sense that they're cracking down."

"There is horrible violence, but then we take a break and have dinner. This is life."

"Seven out of ten road rage cases are perpetrated by clowns out of makeup."

"We're not going up against the Fourteenth Amendment just so you can get out of clown convention duty."

"The pesticides in this case are ego and ambition and greed. One wants one's seed to grow at the expense of others, and so one destroys the ecosystem of ideas."

"We are, it turns out, an odd, delusional species, who search in vain for meaning. It must be noted that no entity other than the human being, including the universe itself, asks 'why?'"

"The assumption of male gender in hobos has hindered the dreams of more female hobos than I as a white man can imagine."

"There should be a psychiatric term for old people."

"Those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it too, that's a little history joke."

"I remembered the way a Phantom pilot had talked about how beautiful the surface-to-air missiles looked as they drifted up toward his plane to kill him, and remembered myself how lovely .50-caliber tracers could be, coming at you as you flew at night in a helicopter, how slow and graceful, arching up easily, a dream, so remote from anything that could harm you. It could make you feel a total serenity... "

"Like every American in Vietnam, he had his obsession with Time."

"Going crazy was built into the tour... "

"... existential crunch... "

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

"... sometimes it pays to mend other people's fences."

"... there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."

"... from the moment of birth every living organism carries within it the seeds of its own destruction."