“Nothing in my life had prepared me to see things that were strange or beyond belief. I was a simple kid in a simple town in a simple family. But what I saw then, right after the collapse of the woman, ripped the "simple" out of my understanding of the rules of the world, and changed my life forever.”
“Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.”
“All I remembered clearly was that one moment, that one simple word that would change my life forever.“Yes.”
“My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was.”
“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
“So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.”