Dave

“Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“James Brown hid everything, and in the game of instant information he lost big-time, because the information machine turns a truth into a lie and a lie into the truth, transforms superstitions and stereotypes into fact with such ease and fluidity that after a while you get to believing as I do, that the media is not a reflection of the American culture but rather is teaching it. As long as James Brown was selling records he let that craziness run. He didn't care. The media worked in his favor and helped fuel his success. But it killed his public reputation and once the success was gone once the head disappeared, the body followed.”
― James McBride, Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

“The soft life is what I'm settling into and the only question is how deadly it will turn out to be.”
― Don DeLillo, Zero K

“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
― H.L. Mencken