Phillip DePoy > Quotes

“It happened in the autumn of the year, when murder feels at home, because so many other things are dying.”
― Phillip DePoy

“No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some kind of shorthand in understanding people, and we think it works, and we use it to assess, categorize, and then, very often, dismiss people. It's the basis for stereotyping, profiling, and several other very sorry words that end in i-n-g.”
― Phillip DePoy, A Corpse's Nightmare

“The Internet is to our intellectual life what the universal unconscious is to our psychological life. In fact, the Internet is the new universal unconscious. It's not even a metaphor anymore.”
― Phillip DePoy, Dancing Made Easy

“Given my upbringing and my life in general, it's not so hard to imagine that my mind would capsize eventually.”
― Phillip DePoy, The Drifter's Wheel

“For reasons I can only guess, my mother always instructed me that it was impolite to tell the truth...Whatever she lacked in versimilitude, she more than made up for in stealth.”
― Phillip DePoy

“I had learned many times that the more you try to get people to deny their illusions, the stronger the illusions can become. But if you indulge those delusions instead, they often fall apart on their own.”
― Phillip DePoy, The Drifter's Wheel

“Sometimes history turns on that little: a single moment, a single bullet.”
― Phillip DePoy