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As A Culture, We Are Not Comfortable With Mortality. We Do Not Accept It The Way Other Cultures Do. We Cling To Youth, And We Don't Want To Die. It's Like, 'well, Too Bad, We Do.'

-Alan Ball

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As A Culture, We Are Not Comfortable

Alan Ball

As A Culture, We Are Not Comfortable With Mortality. We Do Not Accept It The Way Other Cultures Do. We Cling To Youth, And We Don't Want To Die. It's Like, 'well, Too Bad, We Do.'

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