Richard Ford, from The Sportswriter
As I've said, life has only one certain closure. It is possible to love someone, and no one else, and still not live with that one person or even see her. Anything or anyone who says different is a liar or a sentimentalist or worse. It is possible to be married, to divorce, then to come back together with a whole new set of understandings that you'd never have liked or even understood before in your earlier life, but that to your surprise now seems absolutely perfect. The only truth that can never be a lie, let me tell you, is life itself-- the thing that happens.
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Kinky Friedman, from 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out
"To be a hero in today's world, first you have to be dead. Then you have to have been a great trouble-maker, a person not afraid to stir the putrid pot of human history from time to time, causing the Starbucks patrons of the world, and who among us is not a Starbucks patron, to see our glazed, rather ill-defined reflections in our latte, and just possibly reexamine who we are and why in God's name we are here."
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