Timothy Egan Quotes

“I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)”

“Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.”

“Saying goodbye to someone you love isn’t really the hard part. It’s living every day, not being able to say anything to them at all.”

“Autumn arrived and life was in danger of becoming boring again.”

“We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.”

“No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.”

“...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of America, or driving a tractor through the local McDonald's. It means living differently. It means taking responsibility for the character of the human world. That's a real confrontation with the problem of value. In short, refusal of the present is a return to what Thoreau and Ruskin called "human fundamentals, valuable things," and it is a movement into the future. This movement into the future is also a powerful expression of that most human spiritual emotion, Hope.p.124”

“I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.”

“I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.”

“I have a romantic side.”