God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories Quotes

“The Japanese were order people and knew it.. Americans and English were chaos people who thought they were order people. The French were the worst thing to be; order people who thought they were chaos people. But Afghans, like Africans and Russians and the Irish, were chaos people who knew they were chaos people, and while this lent them a good amount of charm, it made their countries berserk, insane.”
― Tom Bissell, God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories

“A disarmingly accurate generalization about assholes: They know a lot, however brittle their knowledge becomes under intimacy's whitest, hottest lights.”
― Tom Bissell, God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories