Tom Leland

“You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.”
― Imre Kertész, Liquidation

“Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.”
― Tahar Djaout, L'invention Du Desert

“Hakujin don't know when a smile is an insult." Hakujin were white people. She always said her experience showed that if you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn't hate them after the way they treated you, you would end up hating yourself, and nothing would change that way, either. So it was no good to hate them, and it was no good not to hate the. So nothing changed.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Floating World

“Smoking while vacuuming makes vacuuming better but smoking while sitting on the couch makes vacuuming harder.”
― Chrissie Hynde