Bjorn

“What's your name?" Oedipa said. "Winthrop Tremaine," replied the spirited entrepreneur, "Winner, for short. Listen, now we're getting up an arrangement with one of the big ready-to-wear outfits in L.A. to see how SS uniforms go for the fall. We're working it in with the back-to-school campaign, lot of 37 longs, you know, teenage kid sizes. Next season we may go all the way and get out a modified version for the ladies. How would that strike you?""I'll let you know," Oedipa said. "I'll keep you in mind." She left, wondering if she should've called him something, or tried to hit him with any of a dozen surplus, heavy, blunt objects in easy reach. There had been no witnesses. Why hadn't she?”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“... there is more to life than there appears to be with the five senses, and logic does not get you anywhere except the atom bomb.”
― Shane MacGowan, A Drink With Shane MacGowan

“Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.”
― John Scalzi

“This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain.”
― Randall Munroe