“Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.” — David Burr Gerrard 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 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 one closet… — David Burr Gerrard 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 protection offered… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“To talk about something is the first step toward invading it.” — David Burr Gerrard 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
“I had always thought that vaginas, with their flaps and folds, looked somehow unfinished.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“All across the region the sexual revolution would arrive by tank.” — David Burr Gerrard 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 lady, and… — 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 moment about… — David Burr Gerrard 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 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 will burn?” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
