Wilbert Truslow

“Von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of Von Neumann’s advice. It’s made me a very happy man ever since. But it was Von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!”
― Richard Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

“Since the moment of the Fall, God has never stopped searching us out.”
― Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“rescued in the month of January, 1853,”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years A Slave