Status Updates From Schegge

„I could say that the reason he let us go to Scotland was […] that he realized we really deserved to show the world that there was beauty in Bosnia, and heart, and love, and that we weren't just victims of madmen, experts at suffering, beggars crying for help, vegetating in our towns and waiting to be picked off while the world watched it on CNN. I could say that, but it wouldn't be the truth.“

„Memories are nothing like tapes. Tapes record reality.
Minds record fiction. My mind was never one for remembering things right. Too much fantasy. Too much muggy past. Too many daydreams. Plus, the present reality, with all its tedious details, is just way too complicated […]. Who can keep track of it all when our eyes are open so wide and when seconds are so short and cheap and when we spend them so easily?“

„…Yugoslavian brand of Communism. Take architects, for example. Say a public building is to be made. In Communism it's not the best architect who gets to make the building; it's the guy (almost always a man) with seniority in the Party who happens to be an architect that gets to make the building. […] By then you're 98 percent bureaucrat and 2 percent architect.“

„After the war a new country was born, bloody all over and enveloped in a new ideological placenta. Its people, divided by faith before, were now forced to unite in godlessness. God was beaten, threatened, blackmailed, tricked, and lured out of the starving populace by the new regime. It was the worst time in the world to be an imam.“