Lee Rourke > Quotes

“I’ve often thought that we seek reality in places and not in ourselves. These places can be anywhere we like them to be: a desert island, the beach, a nightclub, in the arms of a lover in a far-off land, rock climbing, up in the clouds, down in the depths of the deepest ocean, in space—ultimately in space. These places, this space, can be anything we want it to be. We need things, extra things that help us to make sense of it all; we need the space where things can happen, where these spaces can become a thing—it is only at that point, when space becomes a thing to us, that we truly feel real.”
― Lee Rourke, The Canal

“I feel like a stranger.

Yet, I keep on talking.”
― Lee Rourke, Know Your Place

“It’s the banality of evil, that’s what it is. Ordinary human beings doing extraordinary things. It happens. It happens in all wars … Human beings haven’t changed, just killing machines have …”
― Lee Rourke, The Canal