Michael Waxman

“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible. ”
― Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

“When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi