Mr. Wizard

“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“But what I do I do because I like to do.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking