Burning Man Quotes

“skintight layer of clothing that extends from my feet to my neck that’s supposed to help improve my hypertrophic scarring. The Iron Maiden describes hypertrophic scarring as skin that exhibits the three Rs of being red,”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Some of those I help are afflicted with what I call soul loss, which is what happens when the soul gets fragmented and a part of it does not know how to return to the body, or realizes it’s not safe to return.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“William Cummings was right: there are no atheists in foxholes.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“God appears and God is light, to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does a human form display, to those who dwell in”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Out of respect to the reverend mother I had set my”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“The race is not always to the swift.” “Nor the battle to the strong.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“that pecking order. The dogs are taught”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Satchell Paige once posed the question, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“T. S. Eliot was wrong about April being the cruelest month: it’s January.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“He understood that things appear different in daytime and nighttime, even though they are the same.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“There’s a reason the trees are nicknamed nuke-alyptus. Few trees have as much oil in them as eucalyptuses. They’re highly flammable, so much so that during fires they sometimes explode.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Prometheus stole fire from the gods so that humans could become like gods.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“In a messianic situation there exists an environment of proba te dignum—prove yourself worthy.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“The second mouse gets the cheese!”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. I voiced the same line: “Cry ‘Havoc!’” I said, “And let slip the dogs of war.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Jenny thought Sirius was special.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“She named him after the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“It almost feels like I’ve suffered in order to be able to see what I otherwise wouldn’t.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“That’s how it is with me. I keep burning. I am the burning man.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“According to the medical literature, I was a textbook case for posttraumatic stress disorder. During the day I can control my symptoms, at least to a degree, but not at night. That’s when all hell breaks loose in my dreams.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“What would I tell people? That I work in the Defense against the Dark Arts Division?” “I have another name in mind: Special Cases Unit.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“There’s no name for the position I’d like to offer you, but what I need is much the equivalent of a devil’s advocate.” I looked to see if the chief was smiling. He wasn’t. I spoke to my doubts, and maybe my vision: “Are vestments optional?” “In the Catholic church the official title of the devil’s advocate was Promoter of the Faith. It was the job of the advocatus diaboli to present any and all facts unfavorable to the candidate proposed for beatification or canonization.” “I don’t know how to break this to you, Chief, but I don’t think you have to worry about anyone in the LAPD being nominated for sainthood.” “I think I’m aware of that, Officer Gideon,” Ehrlich said. “What I’m trying to tell you is that every organization needs its professional skeptic.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“I can resist everything but temptation,”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“If she’s stupid enough to leave, then you have to be smart enough to let her go.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Most kids grow up wanting to work with animals. There’s a good reason for that. The alternative is to work with humans.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man