What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes being complexity contradiction
As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that. Stacey D'Erasmo fallgodhave Change image and share on social
I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless. Stacey D'Erasmo boundlesscallenergy Change image and share on social
I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge. Stacey D'Erasmo 80scbgbcool Change image and share on social
Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry. Theodore Isaac Rubin angerangrycircuitous share on social
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. Orson Welles aesthetecontradictionlive share on social
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour. Adam Hochschild arousebeingbury Change image and share on social