Clifford Sieber

“There is an old finding in political science that Americans are “symbolically” conservative but “operationally” liberal.30 Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. The Tea Party–era sign saying “Keep your government hands off my Medicare” is perhaps the most famous example of this divided soul.”
― Ezra Klein, Abundance

“Brown told investigators that he, Tackett, Carmon, and Robert Carey had employed water torture and administered electrical shocks to prisoners with the knowledge and consent of Bowers, and that Bowers had personally subjected noncombatants to electrical torture.”
― Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

“Lack of safety within the early caregiving relationship led to an impaired sense of inner reality, excessive clinging, and self-damaging behavior: Poverty, single parenthood, or maternal psychiatric symptoms did not predict these symptoms.”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“He told me his penis was bruised and he’d had trouble urinating since last night. It seemed there were certain elements of the story he’d omitted; his cock looked like an eggplant that had been attacked by a tiger—swollen”
― Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor – A Brutally Honest Medical Memoir Packed with Dark Humor