Peter Bichsel Quotes

We live in a bewildering world.

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.

The world is pretty messed up.

The world is a mess.

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

I worry about the world.

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.