Kurt Fox

“With the warmth and pleasure that are the results of an intimate relationship with another human being, whether friend, lover, parent or child , comes the pain to which such intimacy makes us vulnerable. With hearts and minds fused we bruise as easily as we caress.”
― Whang Sun-won, TREES ON THE CLIFF : A NOVEL OF KOREA AND TWO STORIES

“[he] thought that war consumed people from the inside, leaving them without ethical substance; it reduced them to blurry and dusty scarecrows who simply repeated gestures learned at an earlier age of the universe. The blindness of the conflict left them like trees riddled with termites.”
― Arturo Arias, Rattlesnake

“I can’t believe the way they’re building prisons. Then they fill ‘em up with damn fools on nickel-and-dime drug cases. They make maniacs of ‘em up there, and then turn them loose on the public. It’s like they were growin’ maniacs in hothouses.”
― Edward Bunker, Dog Eat Dog

“God’s country! With Negros treated like animals! God’s country, with its smug sense of superiority to the rest of the world! God’s country, with its mania for material gadgets and signs that warn: “Gentiles only!”
― Claribel Alegría, Ashes of Izalco