William E. Johnson

“the creature comforts a person should ever want or need. For these folks, good luck frankly just washes ashore like it's legally theirs, a property right of sorts, like a description of a car on a title or of a certain piece of real estate on a deed that’s got their name on it. It all belongs to them, free and clear. No liens, no encumbrances. And, all for the asking, or better yet, just automatically bequeathed without the necessary labor of a request, matriculating straight out of granddaddy's trust account, with character and deservedness seeming to almost never play a critical role in determining how or why they have become who they are.”
― William E. Johnson, A Silent Tide

“Day in and day out, they endlessly suffer because it is in the cards for them to suffer. From their fleeting birth moment of sheer biological equality with their gestational peers (which lasts only micro-seconds until the demographics of the hut you were born in take over as the prime predictor of your fate) to their most certain and predictable end in death's waiting arms, their ticket has been cleanly punched and there's nothing they can do about it.”
― William E. Johnson, A Silent Tide