Quotations From Millal Ba

Stuff He Said

“The Church is an out-of-date, mostly dishonest, and almost useless mechanism that lingers into the Twenty-first Century, still capitalizing off past successes and humanity’s vast capacity for nostalgia.

“Claiming to assist with uniting people to their Creator, in actuality, the modern Church erects a plethora of barriers and obstacles to the average ‘believer’, making it virtually impossible to conversate with the Almighty.”
— From Memoirs, by Millal Ba, circa 1997

“Before you can get more from life, you must want more from it.”
— As quoted on June 15, 2000, a note on Dove Glides

“Every thorn has its rose.”
— As quoted in an Oct. 15, 2000, letter to ALA

“I don’t want to be rich so I can have things, I want to be rich so I can enjoy life.”
— As quoted in an Oct. 17, 2000, letter to EP

“Man is described purely by his relationships. Even a lone human, stranded somewhere, has relations with his surroundings, or dies. A human locked into a lightless, soundless, featureless enclosure would go insane before starving to death.”
— As quoted on Dec. 5, 2000

“Do we need to be alone because we write on such morose and introspective subjects, or do we write as we do because we spent so much time alone?”
— As quoted in a Dec. 5, 2000, letter to EP

“If I have learned anything in life, it’s that most often answers to difficult questions come [more easily] after the passage of time.”
— As misquoted on Dec. 19, 2000

“The day you decide to stop learning is the day you admit to the world you’re an idiot.”
— As quoted on Jan. 21, 2001

“If what you’re doing now isn’t working, try something else.”
— As quoted on Aug. 27, 2002

“Life is life, no matter how hard you try to change it.”
— As quoted in the poem Circling, We Came and on 2005.04.10

“For all our striving and attempts to find a secret,
for all our work throughout the night
We learn that no secret exists, life must be accepted
and that there is no Light”
— Ibid

“I have no secrets of which I am ashamed, nor have I ever assassinated any leader of a Democratic nation.”
— Witherspoon, 2001.03.07

Stuff Said About Him

“...a founte of eclectic wisdome...”
“...an insane, reckless fool...”
“...quaintly eccentric...”
“...more worthless than non-alcoholic beer...”
“...as worthwhile as oxygen...”
“...a very smelly gentleman...”
— As quoted in Discoverye of the Talking Ass, 2000.11.08

“I believe that I am unbiased regarding his description, since I both hate and love him at the same time.”
— Ibid

“As always, he was dressed in an old-fashioned suit made of something resembling tweed, complete with waistcoat, leather shoes, pocket watch...”
— Witherspoon, 2001.03.07