Arthur Dawson

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Our lives are spent plopped on the gluteal upholstery for eight hours a day with only imaginary friends for company, spinning lies, marinating in envy, and wondering when the Pulitzer committee is going to twig to our brilliance.”
― Sarah Bird, Recent Studies Indicate: The Best of Sarah Bird

“The USA demanding that North Korea halt its nuclear program is akin to the fox demanding that the hens open their coup.”
― Steven Magee

“It was not unless one lifted one's gaze from all the allegedly normal events occurring before one's eyes and looked at the executioner's sword hanging over everyone's head that the normality was revealed as a sort of mass insanity. . . Passengers on a ship who are . . . engaging in all the usual shipboard activities appear perfectly normal as long as their ship is sailing safely in quiet seas, but . . . deranged if in full view of them all their ship is caught in a vortex that may shortly drag it and them to destruction.”
― Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth