I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.
Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.
Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.
After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.
The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in. . . The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension. . . subconsciously I was crying for help.
Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.
I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me. " They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois. Then I discovered that, much like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.
I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.