Half Moon Bay Quotes

“Rounding the corner at Haste, the crowd rushed toward People’s Park, smashing through the fence and sweeping across the lawn, attacking construction vehicles, slashing tires and seat cushions, knocking out glass. Down came the work lights. They kicked in the door to Nestor Arriola’s trailer and ransacked it. They scaled the remaining trees to take up residence. I didn’t witness any of it. I was sitting onstage in the silent auditorium, squinting in the direction of the light booth. The glare made it impossible to tell if UC Berkeley executive vice chancellor George Greenspan was in there. Just in case, I waved and gave him a thumbs-up. Judy Bronson shifted to face me. The creak of her chair leather carried clear to the back of the room. Zellerbach Hall has world-class acoustics. She said, “What just happened.” I said, “Berkeley.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“the gruesome opposite of tearing into gift wrap.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“Either live in thrall to statistics or make them your friends.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“You can die merging onto the freeway. You can choke on your take-out salad.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“I have this theory: The way a baby acts when she’s tired, that’s how she’s going to be as an adult when she’s drunk. Like, are you the angry drunk, throwing chairs through windows? Or are you a fun drunk who gets loopy and starts kissing everyone.” “What kind of baby do we have?” “Fun for sure.” I said, “You’re totally right. It’s like having a roommate who never sobers up.” “Laugh a little. Cry a little. Poop yourself.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“The whole paper was you.” “Shit don’t write itself.” “This one story, who was the source?” “Same source I always used. Middle third of a joint.” I smiled.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“WITH ITS SOARING ceilings and oily oaken tables, the central branch of the Berkeley Public Library harks back to a grander, more civic-minded era. No other local building embodies more starkly the gulf between 1900s idealism and twenty-first-century reality.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“say ninety percent of the words. She says ninety percent of the words worth listening to.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“But revolutions don’t happen because of one or two individuals; they happen because the majority wakes up and realizes that things must change.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“Everything in Berkeley’s political. Except politics. That’s personal.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“The casual destruction of privacy is one of the most momentous and least visible social revolutions of our time, and the safeguards to anonymity that remain are largely a function of numbers—what I call the Big World Problem.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay

“She had never married or had kids, but she did have nephews. She’d bought them tons of gifts over the years, before they hit adolescence and morphed into—her sister’s words—“ uber-assholes.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Half Moon Bay