Quote of the Day (Robert Stone, on Decency and Betrayal)

''It's very difficult to be even basically decent; it is much easier for people to betray themselves than we think it is.''—American novelist Robert Stone (1937-2015) quoted in Jean Strouse, “Heebiejeebieville Express,” The New York Times, March 16, 1986

Quote of the Day (Robert Stone, on Being ‘Clamorous and Vain’ in the ‘60s)

“In our time [the Sixties], we were clamorous and vain. I speak not only for myself here, but for all those with whom I shared the era and what I think of as its attitudes. We wanted it all; sometimes we confused self-destructiveness with virtue and talent, obliteration with ecstasy, heedlessness with courage.” —Robert Stone, Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (2007)