John Irving

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?”
― Plato, Crito