quotes about Starlings

“I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I've never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman.”

“It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting.”

“How much did Jim Morrison know?”

“The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.”

“I don't take criticism lying down.”

“Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.”

“If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.”

“Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.82, Seven Stories Press

“When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.”

“Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.”