Alex

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

“It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon.… There is much good in it; there are many good and true people in it; it has its appointed place. But the evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula