Apu

“...I’d felt drowned and extinguished by vastness—not just the predictable vastness of time, and space, but the impassable distances between people even when they were within arm’s reach of each other, and with a swell of vertigo I thought of all the places I’d been and all the places I hadn’t, a world lost and vast and unknowable, dingy maze of cities and alleyways, far-drifting ash and hostile immensities, connections missed, things lost and never found…”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists.”
― Friedrich Hayek

“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“My venom exists in the shape of words, and I may use them however I please. If I so desire, I could dilute it's potency, drip it into my prey's ears for decades, until the victim slowly withers of self-loathing, unaware of what I have wrought.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Not So Stories