Quotes by Paul Bailey

“It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.”

“Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.”

“I thought, How long can they survive in there? ”

“It was challenging, to say the least.”

“We followed every standard protocol for hurricanes, but the flooding was just astronomical. Twenty to 50 percent of the population (of New Orleans) had not evacuated. Thats going to take a while to ramp up the rescue operations and support operations. It just doesnt happen in the blink of an eye.”

“[But, he said, placing blame] is not going to do any good, its not going to bring anybody back, ... Id rather sit down and talk about what went right, what went wrong and what we can learn from this.”

“The problem was there was a small area to launch boats and we didnt have the assets there to support the task forces and deploy them. And it wouldve overloaded the system, which compounded the problem,”

“Were not going to leave dispatch short,”

“If these standards are tightened, there will be more cities around the country that will be using this more expensive reformulated gasoline. Also, it may require the reformulation of diesel also,”

“Im shocked at the low turnout. I thought we had people in this city that needed jobs.”