Another Quote From The Muckraker Chronicles

"People think the world is a complicated place. But the world isn't complicated. It runs on a very simple plan -- the same plan since the beginning was the beginning. The plan is this: the people who pull the strings keep the rest of us dancing. And it works because the best plans are always the simplest ones that require the least imagination." -- Wallace Gimley, The Flying Man From Pin Hook

Quote From IN SEASON ... a novel in progress

"I've started to think of what I do less as journalism and more like anthropological research. I'm not young enough to assume I know everything and not old enough to realize that there's nothing worth knowing; there's so much I don't understand. I don't understand how Cincinnati sports teams defeat themselves in spite of colossal talent; I don't understand how George W. Bush won two elections; I don't understand people that think Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin are fuckable. And when it comes down to it, I still don't understand people, or why I always feel like I'm living in a fish bowl. There's this layer of something between me and other people, and it's always been this way."  -- JJ Rafferty