“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
“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 Closet 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
“To talk about something is the first step toward invading it.” — David Burr Gerrard First step Copy Share Image
“That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.” — David Burr Gerrard Accepting things Copy Share Image
“I had always thought that vaginas, with their flaps and folds, looked somehow unfinished.” — David Burr Gerrard Vaginas Copy Share Image
“Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building.” — David Burr Gerrard Genocide Copy Share Image
“All across the region the sexual revolution would arrive by tank.” — David Burr Gerrard Sexual revolution 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
“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
“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
“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 Fall 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
“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 was afraid you would deny me three times before your cock grows.” — David Burr Gerrard Three times 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
“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
“Don’t you wonder sometimes,” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?” — David Burr Gerrard Power 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
“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 Corpse 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
“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
