Wayne Purvis

“Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong”
― Marc Lewis, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs

“The unflagging optimism and constant good nature of the Tibetan people challenges us to identify the source of our misery and discontent. Most of the time when we examine it, we realise we have little to be upset about at all. It is simply our lack of control over our own lives that causes us the majority of our own suffering. Attack the real root of the situation, and we can solve the problem. But any other action simply causes more problems.”
― James Oroc

“When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil things we can think of, but everybody else pretends like they're on the side of the angels. The reality is, if the angels want to win, it takes the devil to succeed.”
― Jon Roberts, American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

“Harry Potter books are generally passed off as great literature, since most adults are now only capable of reading children's books. Television programming targets the lowest common denominator in order to sell products to the largest number of people. The less informed the population, the easier they are to manipulate. Fed a constant diet of "entertainment" sans any intellectual challenge, the mind stops growing and starts to wither”
― James Oroc