quote-wise
God would never let me be successful. He'd kill me first. He'll never let me be happy.
- I thought you didn't believe in god.
I do for the bad things.
"All they talk about is usually sex, failed relationships, matt memories or mental ego-trips."
"I agree."
"And nobody, I says: n-o-b-o-d-y even takes a minute to think about fuckin world politics."
"Yeah, absolutely."
"I wonder why they believe that they don't need to care about it. How can we detach politics from our lives? Why trying to divide these two into separate things? Life on the one side. (he points at the ashtray) And politics on the other?" (he lifts his remote control)
"Who are 'they'?"
"Everyone."
It was quiet on the porch. A white car drove down the street. For a brief moment the sunlight was thrown back from its polished surface.
"That was a damn good hot dog."
"You got that one right."
Behind the two men, inside the dark corners of the house, a clock stroke the hour.
"Poor bastard."
"What d'you mean?"
"The guy who is selling hot dogs."
"But they are some fine hot dogs." He reached for his package of cigarettes.
"Want one?"
"No, thanks. I mean all he does is selling rotten hot dogs. All day long and every single day. It's like his stand contains a whole world to him."
"Well, do you believe he leads a lesser life?"
"Sometimes I have this impression when I look at people and listen to them talking."
"What is it?"
"That they can't take more than themselves. The other man there sitting, that woman walking, a kid playing, is already too much."
Was haben Picasso und Hemingway gemeinsam?
Ihre Eier hängen auf Höhe der Knie.
I'm glad to see that there are some people who paint what they see.
Oh, really?
Yes. And still others paint what they know. But I want to paint what I think.
"Why do you have to kill us?" asked the Jewish man with his white shirt stuck into his black pants.
"You are leaving no other option to us." replied the other man whose son attends an elementary school in Ramallah.
"Is death the only option you have to offer?"
"It is the only one you understand."
"What is it that we seem to understand about it?"
"Maybe to live in uncertainty?"
