“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead to the future, rather than the reverse. Historians would later mark it as the end of the twentieth… — David Burr Gerrard 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 the lies will be burned away.” — 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
