Tim Wallace

“You spend all your life grappling with the idea of finality. When you do, you adapt and embrace your limitations fully, and that makes you freer. That’s how you get your identity back, even if that identity is altered from the person you once were. The man I had been died that night in the karaoke bar. Back down here, this was the only man I could be. I was growing more adept at being him. You can defy your mind when you’re young and have it pay off. That wasn’t the case for me any longer. I had to accept this new mind and learn to live with it.”
― Drew Magary, The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage

“Today the intellectual leaders of the Republican Party are the paranoids, kooks, know-nothings, and bigots who once could be heard only on late-night talk shows, the stations you listened to on long drives because it was hard to fall asleep while laughing. When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team.”
― Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

“What few people grasp—because they are outside the system and have normal lives to lead—is just how huge the machinery of deception is that the Republicans have erected and how long it has been in the making. Fox News is unique in American media history as serving more like the in-house propaganda arm of a strong-man dictator than operating by the accepted norms of professional journalism.”
― Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

“To live on, you have to make the good happen. A different life need not be a worse one. You have to decide if you’re the lucky one or not. Why live on otherwise?”
― Drew Magary, The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage