Tom Bissell Quotes

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm pistol, and six rounds of ammunition, in search of a vicious gang of mohawked marauders who were 100 percent bad news and totally had to be dealth with. Trust Daddy on this one.

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.