Really. After last fucking horrible year, I’m not sure I can take anymore. But it doesn’t seem to be stopping. One of my favorite actors, Andreas Katsulas, died yesterday. He played a zillion different roles but will likely be remembered for one in particular:
A screenwriter is nothing without actors, and Babylon 5 would have been worth so much less without his genius behind G’Kar. In memoriam, a few choice G’Kar quotes:
“Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead… how do you appologize to them?”
“If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth… for understanding. Too often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search – who does not bring a lantern – sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light… pure and unblemished… not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe – God looks astonishingly like we do – or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us.”
“The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements. Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest. ”
“It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past.”
” The war we fight is not against powers and principalities – it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.”
“I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we’ve exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that going will very much miss the part of you that is staying. ”
I really want to watch Sleeping in Light now but it’s just too goddamn sad.
