“I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.” YearsWholeFunFireNormalYeahSevenThings To DoBurnedSeven YearsBackyardsNormal ThingsJust For Fun Author:Emraan Hashmi
“I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.” Has BeensRealitySocialFireNormalBoundariesDefinedAbnormalQuestionableCategorizationDeviantsNormal And Abnormal Author:Walter Truett Anderson
“Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear the day their parents kill. My mum killed a guy, at my wedding. So I can pretty much check that off. But, she's my mum. And no matter what she did I just can't walk away from her. She gave me birth. She gave me love. She gave me the ability to make a cigarette fire look like it was started by the hot water heater.” PeopleLooksI CanMatterGuyDiesParentWaterAbilityWalksFireBirthNormalHotNo Matter WhatChecksMumCigaretteScrewed UpHot Water Author:Christopher Titus
“It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.” FireNormalOrdinaryFavorsDepartmentSocialistPerfectly NormalFire Department Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.” ThinkingMenMadeBeautifulFormDifferencesFireFashionHolyNormalShoesRevelationsMutualWealthyPassagesEnginesHomageLyricalSterlingFootwearPerfectly Normal Author:William Gibson