Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD

“You know the difference between a million and a billion? A million seconds is eleven days. A billion seconds is thirty-two years.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“I love mirrors,” Greta tells me. “Mirrors are the barrier between the conscious and unconscious mind. Everyone has an inner concept of themselves, but mirrors are reality. What you see right now—that is the truth that everyone else sees.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“…he recognizes that history repeats itself in the form of systemic amorality (whether in Nazi Germany or Vietnam-era America)—and that it demands acts of violence, drafting its youth into service either as soldiers or as mentally castrated state agents….”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“I don't need you to agree with me,” she said quietly. “I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion — and action.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“My attorney has never been able to accept the notion—often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation—that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“even if everything went perfectly and they made the heroic save, it would be difficult to explain why she turned up at the scene with an incel streamer, his dad, a disgraced makeup influencer, and a Roller Derby girl in a blue hentai van driven by a disabled furry porn artist.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.“

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it was a good way to describe things.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“My religion, your mom’s religion, they’re all inside out about suicide. It’s pretty clear whoever wrote the rules didn’t have mesothelioma. Take Jesus over there. He knew what he was doing with that cross. And his rep’s still pretty good.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“People with money list what they did without. Poor people list what they had.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“No one could have saved him. No one can save anyone, not even themselves.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“I suppose that’s what everybody wants, isn’t it. To be like everybody else. But nobody is like everybody else.… If they taught us that in school, I feel like the world would be a much happier place.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“It’s funny, across a lifetime, the people you pick up. It’s often the most unexpected ones who stick around. There are friendships forged in fire, which end up disappearing like smoke, and other casual, nodding friendships, which will stay with you for the rest of your life.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“You may beat the devil once-—through providence, bravery, dumbass luck, or a combination of all—but not twice.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“Reporters are like vampires, Curry likes to say. They can't come into your home without your invitation, but once they're there, you won't get them out till they've sucked you dry. She opened the door.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“They were all so nice and it was just excruciating. I was never taking off the helmet again. I can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“‘You probably think its different for you, and you might say something about how you couldn’t help it, and that maybe your viciousness was part of your ‘mental illness,’ but being an a$$hole is not recognized in the DSM (we used to have fun reading that, didn’t we?).’”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“Civilization can probably adjust to the loss of the secondhand book trade, though I don’t think it’s really likely to have to.
Can it though, survive the loss of reading?
That’s a tougher question, but a very important one.”

[Kevin Storr, APR, MSIDD @kevinstorr]

“‘I thought our job involved preserving democracy’ he said. ‘How does harassing a journalist help?’
‘Are you serious? It ought to be one of our key performance indicators.’”