“I was afraid you would deny me three times before your cock grows.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building.” — David Burr Gerrard Community Copy Share Image
“All across the region the sexual revolution would arrive by tank.” — David Burr Gerrard Revolution Copy Share Image
“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.” — David Burr Gerrard Hero Copy Share Image
“All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.” — David Burr Gerrard Children Copy Share Image
“To talk about something is the first step toward invading it.” — David Burr Gerrard First step Copy Share Image
“The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.” — David Burr Gerrard Freedom Copy Share Image
“Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.” — David Burr Gerrard Addiction Copy Share Image
“Don’t go to the protest. Go out and get laid. Unless you’re going to the protest to get laid.” — David Burr Gerrard Protest Copy Share Image
“There was too much protection in a drone, protection that was also a denial of one’s own humanity, very much like the… — David Burr Gerrard Burqa Copy Share Image
“He says that politics is a waste of time. Politics are? Politics is? Anyway, a waste of time. He says you should… — David Burr Gerrard Politics Copy Share Image
“Don’t you wonder sometimes,” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?” — David Burr Gerrard Feminism Copy Share Image
“I had always thought that vaginas, with their flaps and folds, looked somehow unfinished.” — David Burr Gerrard Vaginas Copy Share Image
“That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.” — David Burr Gerrard Literary fiction Copy Share Image
“You could fling open every closet of regret and desire in yourself and the people you loved, and still there would be… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“I think that we were both wrong. I think that Arthur had sex with his sister to create a short century.” “Daddy,… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity… — David Burr Gerrard Christianity Copy Share Image
“Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a… — David Burr Gerrard Computers Copy Share Image
“Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until it stopped being subtle, like a… — David Burr Gerrard Brecht Copy Share Image
“She pulled down my pants and boxers in one unbroken movement, an act that felt as abrupt and strange as this entire… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That… — David Burr Gerrard Computers Copy Share Image
“The twentieth will be a short century,” he said. “Either we or the Soviets will launch the missiles before long, and all… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.” — David Burr Gerrard Change the world Copy Share Image
“Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“See,” Miranda said, “this is the truth.” Sitting in class one morning, I found her pubic hair in my teeth.” — David Burr Gerrard Pubic hair Copy Share Image
“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.” — David Burr Gerrard Books Copy Share Image
“I'm saying that figuring out what's important in life and how to go about getting it is very difficult. Sometimes you get… — David Burr Gerrard Computers Copy Share Image
“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead… — David Burr Gerrard History Copy Share Image
“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you… — David Burr Gerrard Epiphany Copy Share Image
“Saddam probably had weapons of mass destruction, and even if he didn’t, he was a weapon of mass destruction. A guy I… — David Burr Gerrard Israel Copy Share Image
