Thomas Leonard Quotes

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

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

Change will always be violent.

… a major threat to regional stability.

War is unsettling.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

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

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

It is not new and it is not order.

Turkey is a plague spot … a breeder of wars

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

You see the problem of an unstable White House from the outside and worry about it. But from the inside, it is 50 times worse.

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

Sometimes you got to mess stuff up to get change going.