Shutdown Quotes

“Angelo," he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.”

“Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing is rather an active, persistent, violent refusal; an erasure, a destruction of form and of representation. The fundamental essence of the death instinct, the instinct that destroys all psychic structure is apparent in this phenomenon. . . . The death drive is against knowing and against the developing of knowledge and elaborating [it].”

“It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.”

“Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.”

“My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.”