Rickster Cerpts Locuson

“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”
― Will Cuppy

“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.”
― Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled

“Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.”
― Edward Gorey, The Evil Garden

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy