Alex

“What did you expect?”
― John Williams, Stoner

“When I got back to school in the fall, I changed my major from linguistics and didn’t take any more classes in the philosophy or psychology of language. They had let me down. I hadn’t learned what I had wanted to about how language worked. I hadn’t learned anything at all.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:

I was, I am, I shall be!”
― Rosa Luxemburg