A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils.

— James Hannaham

Like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a fun house—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

— James Hannaham

You all think a body be who you are, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.

— James Hannaham