One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?' — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“What was shocking were the rewards my father's cousins had gathered in the intervening couple of decades. They farmed now on thousands of acres,… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“That thing some people call boredom, in the correct if elusive dosage, can be a form of inoculation against itself. Once you struffle through… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“Our elected leaders treat us as children or consumers — ideally both, monstrous in our appetites, unable to discriminate between our wants and our needs.” — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“By being virtually useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.” — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
