David Waln

“You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stopped even for a minute to think, there it was and you could fall into it so easily. Some fell. Some went nuts, some even took their own lives.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.”
― Frank O'Connor, Collected Stories

“Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.”
― Clarence Day

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
― William James