FantasticLand Quotes

“If he showed up on a desert island with a sandwich and a rescue boat, most people would try to beat him to death with the sandwich.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“it’s that a person gets stupid when they become people. They are easily convinced of things.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“A bit of well-placed profanity never goes awry if you pick your spot with care. Stephen King novels taught me that.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Most Americans aren’t too happy asking for help, to be honest with you. It’s part of our national character.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Fear, I’ve learned, is never a good place from which to operate,”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“but in disasters, people react differently. It’s not uncommon for people to focus on one thing they can control amid a sea of chaos and hyperfocus on that one thing.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“One more thing. I...I kind of hate people. Seriously, I've thought about how to phrase this and the best thing I can say isn't, "I'm not a people person," or something like that. It's that I hate people. some persons, individual persons, I like and love, but when you get eight or more together in a group, I hate that. I mean HATE that. I hate cliques, I hate crowds, and the only reason i got anywhere in retails is that I was always moving around. I had a purpose. My idea of hell is being one of those people in the middle of those crowd shots you see in concerts, you know, where fifteen thousand people are watching some band or something. But it's not just the number of bodies; it's that a person gets stupid when they become people. They are easily convinced of things. So I guess if my story had a heading, like, in your book, it might be "How Clara stopped hating people because they started doing what she said," Or something less wordy that doesn't make me sound like a controlling bitch.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“To think our young people are capable of what we saw chills the blood for a very long time.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“it’s that a person gets stupid when they become people.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“He could have saved a baby from a burning building on national TV, and it wouldn’t have made a dent in how much people hated him. If he showed up on a desert island with a sandwich and a rescue boat, most people would try to beat him to death with the sandwich.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“When you are used to constant stimuli and then have it taken away with nothing to replace it, people act in all sorts of interesting ways.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“People want to make this out to be a great American failing, but try this experiment: Take one hundred kids from that age group from any country, separate them on islands, give them the cocktail of constant affirmation and stimulation these kids were getting pumped through their brains, and one hundred times out of one hundred you have bloodshed. I guarantee it. Put yourself in the shoes of any of these kids, with their peers yelling “kill or be killed” in their ear, coaxing them, begging them to swing that sword or shoot that arrow or … or stab that other kid tied up and …”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“There are times in life where unpleasant things are happening, and if you don’t fight you might as well be meat.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“People were civil and were helping each other. The weak got help first. It was the best of America. Then you’d go to the next location and it would be out-and-out looting and every man for himself.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“FUCK YOU FOR PISSING ON MY DREAM.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“intense boredom punctuated by moments of absolute terror.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“I know folks like that, who have no sense of the greater good, you know? Whose agenda is the only thing that matters.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“When you have places screaming for help and news helicopters flying over and getting hours and hours and hours of footage of the job you’re not doing, it becomes very easy to let lower priorities slide down the list.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“I’m going to kick him in the fucking nuts.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“It was like this thing, this all-encompassing thing that had been my torment and my motivation and my pain and my work and my identity and my triumph, I knew in that split second that it was done.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“So I wandered, man. I tried on a bunch of personalities. I was a punk, then I was an angel, then I believed in God.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“... & stabbed him through his right eyeball. Or left eyeball. Right to me, left to him. Either way, bad deal for him.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Either way, a second after we had that moment, I beat her to death with my metal baseball bat. I didn't stop until her head was in a very different shape from when I started.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“If we were oil & water, the oil was on fire, and the water had been frozen into razor-sharp shards of ice.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Fire Breather in the World's Circus, Head of the Freaks.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“I've talked to my therapist about it, and she suggested I was so happy to have power over anything that I took full advantage of the situation. That's a small consolation after you've felt your fist break a poor girl's cheekbone.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“The girls. God love 'em, they kicked, and they scratched, and they grabbed, and there was screaming, and by the time it was clear they had gotten away, the girls were all so jacked up we could have burned down the whole park, the whole state of Florida, & good riddance.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“She was out of my league, brother. Big time.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Personally, I was still in love with the idea that your friends standing up with you would run off all the threats we were going to face. I got my heart broken on that one.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“He was creative in the least fertile environment you can think of for an artist, but what that upbringing accomplished was to make him single-minded & absolutely sure of his vision.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand