Vacationland Book Quotes

#1. The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

Penelope Spheeris

#2. I wish I had never been born
there or anywhere else.

Thomas Hardy

#3. Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Abraham Lincoln

#4. Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

Benjamin Rush

#5. In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

Mark Twain

#6. Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mutilated.

Joe Abercrombie

#7. Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

Frederick Lenz

#8. It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

Kristen Stewart

#9. Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees ...

Francis Bacon

#10. My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

Theaster Gates

#11. All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest.

Tony Horton

#12. Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists ... when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you.

Pamela Druckerman

#13. You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

Norman Douglas

#14. I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.

Keanu Reeves