In the tradition of all great America ideas, [they] have created a confident plan for action, no matter how costly, impractical, or dangerous.

Sean Bonner and Allen Morgenstern, The New Oklahoma [Amazon]

Hermetic quote Bonner Morgenstern The New Oklahoma confident costly impractical dangerous

Consider also:

  1. “95% of our writing process is just trying to make each other laugh”
  2. “Don’t worry. You don’t have to do anything — we’ll ask the Internet for a bunch of cash.”
  3. We are here to fix the gods’ mistakes – and in doing so – become gods ourselves.
  4. “THESE little minds have no conception of the great ideas which distinguish man from mannikin. They imagine that Rodin was a Frenchman, and Wagner a German. They do not understand that these persons were not men, but Gods. They do not understand that the creations of such men are in the nature of that image of the great Goddess Diana which came down from heaven for us men and for our salvation. They do not understand that Rheims is as sacred as Cologne; that the Kremlin should have been protected from the maniacs, who are trying to translate Bernard Shaw into action, as Jerusalem (if there be anything of artistic value therein) from the British. As a matter of fact, I believe there is nothing but a lot of faked historical monuments camouflaged by the wily Syrian for the exploitation of American tourists of the Chautauqua brand. If this be so, Allenby, go to it!”
  5. “Having purchased my tie and wept together about Bond street, we began to talk about the war. I said to him: ‘If I had come into this shop (or should I say store) with the firm conviction that you were a dangerous maniac, thirsting for my blood, that you were insensible to every feeling of humanity, that the fiercest and most malignant wild beasts had nothing on you (I believe that is the correct phrase) in the matter of atrocity, I do not think we should have settled this matter of the tie (or should I say neckwear) with the philosophic calm which has characterized our interview up to this point.’ I regret to say that this person was so lost to all sense of patriotism as to agree with me.”