Trevor Dunn Quotes

Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.

There's been cultural rot since there's been culture.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

I hate to write Solutions in my books because I don’t really have solutions.

Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade.

There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.

The painful truth is that in its attempt to remain 'morally neutral,' Hollywood is causing us to raise a nation of cads and harlots... Thanks again, Sean Penn!

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.

Being on "SNL" was a goal that I had when I was younger. When I got fired, I just felt really mad and I felt really grossed out by the system and grossed out by myself and it just sort of knocked me on my ass.

Two thousand miles, Rachel,” he said tightly, and I guessed that no, it didn’t violate the rules of whatever he was doing out here, because he sure wasn’t out here keeping the coven from attacking me. “I have eaten nothing but slop for two days and used facilities I wouldn’t let my dogs urinate in. And what about that couple in the RV outside Texas? I’ll never get that memory out of my head.” - Trent to Rachel

No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.

I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I'm cursed, so never mind.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.