Lyndal Roulston Quotes & Sayings

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. — H.L. Mencken

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death — Ivan Illich

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule. — Laurell K. Hamilton

After hours of wearing stifling suits while seated on rigid pews and high-backed dining chairs, to enter water and splay our limbs was freeing. The midday sun fell full on the pool, so when we waded in up to our waists, heat and cold balanced as if by a carpenter's level. That was the best sensation, knowing in a moment, but not quite yet, I'd dive into cold but emerge into warmth. Years later at Wake Forest, when I still believed I might create literature, I'd write a mediocre poem about those mornings in church and afterward the 'baptism of nature. — Ron Rash

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it. — Don DeLillo