Jon Richfield

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“A mask tells us more than a face.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The house stank; a stench all its own pervaded every corner. It was a threnody in the key of Cat minor, with a ground-bass of Old Dog, and modulations of old people, waning lives, and relinquished hopes.”
― Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels

“I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.”
― Wolfgang Pauli