John O'Connor > Quotes

“At the risk of stating the obvious, Washington is an absurdly well-caffeinated state. Its coffee IQ is through the roof. What surprised me was how widely dispersed it was. Everywhere, even in one-stoplight villages, there are wooden huts, Shackletonian in size and bearing yet decadently outfitted in state-of-the-art coffee-making tackle.”
― John O’Connor, The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

“The following morning, Gary and Colby returned once more to Balanced Rock, hoping to dig up evidence of last night's sighting. An argument was taking place in my head: I'd seen diddly to suggest that Bigfoot resided in the Berkshires. What I'd experienced instead was the intoxicating power of belief, a power that's in all of us. At the same time, one need not be kissed before falling in love. Bigfoot may or may not be real, I thought, but either way, there's something profoundly true about the feeling it evinced.”
― John O'Connor

“a technology that promised to build consensus but has, in fact, only made truth harder to discern. “Someone seeking information on UFOs, for example, can quickly find material on antigravity, free energy, Atlantis studies, alternative cancer cures, and conspiracy,” lending the impression that these beliefs represent a “unified domain” instead of a random allotment of unconnected ideas. Such intermingling, Barkun warns, is potentially catastrophic to our broader social order.”
― John O’Connor, The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster