Quotes from Thomas F. Monteleone

I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN

overhead the birds are calling, their cries seeming to feel the air. As i watch, they rise.. flinging their bodies against the sky, intent upon the moment, spinning and turning like embers of smoke upon the air. I envy them, this life of theirs.. the way they live so free of themselves, they are without past, without future, an exaltation of life beating in so many parts, rising up into the infinity of space. watching them i find i want to weep, and yet i have no tears.

He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him.