#john romeril

“It’s not that human beings cannot bear too much reality. It’s that reality is too much to bear.”

“When an airliner crashes there is wreckage strewn on either side for a mile. We are all human wreckage and there is not one place on this earth we have not walked. [...] We are wreckage strewn across a planet - evidence of some monstrous crime against ourselves. [...] The century of disasters.”

“If I thought it was my business to make someone’s pain palatable and undisturbing for an audience I would prefer to close up shop.”

“The point is not to suffer the world but to change it.”