Thomas M. Disch

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1940 age 0

   Born

2. 1987 age 47

   CreditThe Brave Little Toasterscreenwriter

3. 2008 age 68

   Died

• JRJoe Ranft1 title
• DEDonald W. Ernst1 title
• DNDavid Newman1 title
• DKDonald Kushner1 title
• JRJerry Rees1 title
• PLPeter Locke1 title
• JCJoe Cutler1 title

• People in intolerable circumstances will pray to anything. Truly, there are no atheists in foxholes: the men there pray to the bombs that they may land somewhere else.

  Thomas M. Disch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Boz, who had no patience with Science, always confused north and south.

  Thomas M. Disch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• All the things that happen and seem so important at the time, and yet you forget them, one after another.

  Thomas M. Disch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Jobs are like going to church: it’s nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there’s something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in every single week.

  Thomas M. Disch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The way we work, the way we talk, the way we watch television or walk down the street, even the way we fuck, or maybe that especially—each of those is part of the problem of identity. We can’t do any of those things authentically until we find out who we really are and be that person, inside and out, instead of the person other people want us to be. Usually those other people, if they want us to be something we aren’t, are using us as a laboratory for working out their own identity problems.

  Thomas M. Disch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Marvin Kolodny responded with a boyish grin and offered his hand. An American flag has been tattooed on his right forearm. On a scroll circling the flagpole was the following inscription:

  Thomas M. Disch, CC BY-SA 4.0