"I am even more persuaded than I was ten years ago that governments are essentially rotten and not to be trusted. To put it another way, the anarchist distrust for government—as more history parades itself before us, the more events come into our view—the anarchist distrust of government seems to me more and more legitimate."
From the first rumblings of the opening riff--the brassy stomp of “Beds Are Burning” (i.e., the now-famous duh, duh, du-u-uh!)--I became stupid with goosebumps. My heart pounded like some long-extinct herd. And for the first time in my rock-n-roll life, I felt my very aliveness...
"I like to listen to the arc of a record, like reading a book from start to finish. I make records that way."
"His eyes, my Andere Vater's eyes, they would hurt so much, but he kept smiling, never frowning, never complaining."
With all your lies, you're still very lovable. - "For Emma"
"But I do think that because we're sort of 'living in the Matrix,' we have this hunger for truth and fact because we know these things are important--and we’ve abdicated truth and fact in the larger society--so we’re just projecting our need for them onto other areas. I just think that fiction, like many other areas, is being asked to carry the burden for a society that no longer wants to confront itself."
"For a band that's just starting out, it's still fun and exciting and very Kerouacian to be in a van and touring the country. That's the spirit I wanted for Audrey, and listening to that music definitely helped to infuse the book."
The co-authors of Reproduce & Revolt, a twenty-first century primer on creating socially radical art, discuss the power of visual culture--and our ability to use visual tools to make change.
"In the end it was all about finding a way to express something that you cannot express otherwise."
Reece parked in front of the store, which read Squadrito and Son's in rusty neon across the façade. He'd bought the place after the old man died, but never bothered to change the name. At least once a day, someone walked in, "You Squadrito?"
The author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear talks about Cocteau Twins, Talk Talk, the importance of soundtracks, and why writing novels "appeals to the control freak inside [him]."
"When Reagonomics hit--if you recall--a lot of after-school activities were taken away...so that left a lot of young people on the street...[Then in] '85, crack hit...so if we were on the streets, instead of in school, that's what we were doing."
"I like reading reviews not for the truth element but as a form of writing—I don't even know what they mean. We have reached this juncture in the country where nothing is what it is supposed to be. Who knows, books aren't books anymore. I don't know what we are up to. We're in a new phase."
"Their game has been to privatize the entire essence of what it means to be a state--from military to disaster relief. They want these unaccountable elements. They want to turn everything that it means to be a state into a for-profit enterprise, including outsourcing the advanced interrogation techniques, which is torture."