Musings from a Small Island Quotes

“Kicking an art addiction is a heck of a lot harder than going sober.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“I’m a nonviolent guy, but the next time some brainwashed Duracell trapped in the Matrix tells you that by curtailing our liberties the authorities are ‘just trying to protect us,’ please do yourself and freedom a favor by sucker-punching them in their lying jaw.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Becoming one with the wave is about as authentic and personally harmonizing an experience as you can get in these phony days of Auto-Tune.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Around here people don’t walk their dogs—dogs walk their people.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Political correctness has nothing to do with fairness; it’s a weaponized psyop designed to induce people to let others do their thinking for them.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Surf too low and there’s nowhere to go but down. Surf too high and you risk being thrown to the sky. The true path is straight and narrow down the eye of the barrel.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“A nauseating display of statist brainwashing anywhere, Independence Day is especially trying on my small island. The entire landmass is littered with flag-waving tourists from North, South, East and West Jesus so unaware their country is a democracy in name only they wouldn’t know freedom if it bit them on their star-spangled asses.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“The next time you encounter a vegan chowing down on a freshly picked salad, understand that, from the salad’s point of view, this is a crime against nature.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“When it comes to internal contradictions, vegans don’t have brain farts; they have grain farts.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Nothing, not an IRS audit, not even waterboarding, is worse than having country music forced on you.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“As one might say about sex, even bad bodysurfing is good bodysurfing.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“As I’ve aged, I’ve come to prefer the idea to the reality of human company.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Inks don’t forget. But with enough coaxing, occasionally they can be persuaded to forgive.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Maybe art’s just a mode of escapism, but I’ll take that. It’s certainly a lot cheaper (not to mention safer) than heroin. You can smack me up with art any day.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“I particularly enjoy the great synchronized skeins of pelicans that fly above the waves in summer. How, being animals, they know how to write the letter V just so in the sky is anyone’s guess.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“I have nothing against cats, feral or otherwise, but I do tend to distrust people who care more about animals than people.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“You have to take things with a grain of salt on a small island.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“For the sonically challenged, the world would be much better indeed if architects and builders cared about noise pollution as much as profit margins.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“If I’m recovering from anything, I’m recovering from trying to recover from anything.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun