Neil Johnson

“He’d concluded that “school’s not for smart kids,” a kernel of truth inside an excuse wrapped up as a brag: comfort for a refusenik.”
― Brian Alexander, Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“It tasted as if I’d taken a drink directly from the diseased asshole of an incontinent skunk.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it’s that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis. Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don’t manage the truth. You tell the truth.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History