Robert Bausch

“Everybody says they want to live in peace; everybody says they don’t want to go to no war. Nobody wants to spend every waking moment looking to be killed or having to kill somebody to keep from getting killed. That’s what you would think. But what humans do is just that. All the time. So no matter how it makes you feel, no matter what folks say about war and killing, we’re all lying to ourselves and everybody else. It’s all one big everlasting lie. When I know this, it don’t feel right even thinking about a thing so far off as happiness. Something way down inside of me feels like it’s dripping and damp and completely evil. I know I am a animal that can talk and there ain’t nothing that will ever save me nor no one else. This is what we are, and until we die, it’s all we are. A savage animal that can talk.”
― Robert Bausch, Far as the Eye Can See