Kyle

“Regular memories are courtroom sketches, elaborated and eroded at every viewing.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“Labels. I stuck them on everything. 'Good.' 'Bad.' 'Right.' 'Wrong.' 'Square.' 'Hip.' 'Queer.' 'Normal.' 'Friend.' 'Enemy.' 'Success.' 'Failure.' They're easy to use. They save you the bother of thinking. Those labels stay stuck. They proliferate. They become a habit. Soon, they're covering everything, and everybody, up. You start thinking reality is the labels. Simple labels, written in permanent marker. The trouble is, reality's the opposite. Reality is nuanced, paradoxical, shifting. It's difficult. It's many things at once. That's why we're so crummy at it. People harp on about freedom. All the time. It's everywhere. There are riots and wars about what freedom is and who it's for. But the Queen of Freedoms is this: to be free of labels.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“If we could read the script of the future, we'd never turn the page.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“It's in moments like this that I remember why I don't have encounters with married women. Inevitably, it leads to encounters with married men.”
― Jason Mott, Hell of a Book