Quotes from Todd Strasser

Strength through discipline! Strength through community! Strength through action!

Why do we believe one stranger and not another?

What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts.

I'm sitting on the back deck, gazing up at the moonless night sky. The Milky Way is a hazy diagonal across the star-glittery blackness. In the immensely vast universe, we are a tiniest speck. In the billions of years of history, we are the merest infinitesimal instant. Yet we persist in believing that what we do can be important.

It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.

I'd learned a little about nuclear war from duck-and-cover air-raid drills at school, but most of what I knew about the Russians came from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on TV.

It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on.

Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.

But there will be no story about this moment, no photographs. No one except the two of them will ever know. It is the best thing she can do.

He did," I said. "But I told him he'd just have to shoot me.