Jason Kirkmeyer

“half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.”
― Italo Calvino, Mr. Palomar

“Examine your rules of education; you will find them all topsy-turvy, especially in all that concerns virtue and morals. The only moral lesson which is suited for a child—the most important lesson for every time of life—is this: “Never hurt anybody.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Occasionally we grew so tired and breathless with fighting them that we had to desist,—and immediately the donkey would come down to a deliberate walk. This, with the fatigue, and the sun, would put a man asleep; and soon as the man was asleep, the donkey would lie down. My donkey shall never see his boyhood’s home again. He has lain down once too often. He must die.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

“I’m not one of your Herculaceous sort, if you mean that. Nothing very wonderful bicepitally.”
― H.G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly