Joan

“Cassandra had been given knowledge of the future and simultaneously condemned to a lifetime of being disbelieved and rejected. The wearisome preoccupation of the elderly—namely, the conviction that they had already seen the show but could never pass on the lessons they had learned from it—was not unlike Cassandra’s burden, except the anger and bitterness of old people was not the stuff of Homeric epics.”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.”
― Michael Malice

“Tom laughed at the phrase "sexual deviation." Where was the sex? Where was the deviation? He looked at Freddie and said low and bitterly: "Freddie Miles, you're a victim of your own dirty mind.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson