Vonda

“Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith