Chris DiCroce > Quotes

“In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.”
― Chris DiCroce, Burning Man

“Some were only there to see and be seen. Some to watch the fall. People love free booze and a car crash.”
― Chris DiCroce, Burning Man

“Every man should have to dig his own grave, Dash thought. If for nothing else, than to know what it feels like to dig his own grave.”
― Chris DiCroce, Burning Man

“I’m not who you think I am. I’m an actor. Just like all of you. I’m improvising, shooting from the hip. It’s all a lie. I’m a lie. You’re a lie. The lights—they don’t lie. But when they shine, they only tell half the story.”
― Chris DiCroce, Burning Man

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”
― Chris DiCroce, You Gotta Go To Know: How One Couple Sold Everything to Live on a Sailboat in Pursuit of Freedom, Happiness and Adventure

“Skylab might have been the only thing that fell faster than Reggie’s skirt when it came to a man squatting in the general proximity of her vestibule. The sun rises. The earth turns. Reggie drops her skirt.”
― Chris DiCroce, Burning Man