Renee

“Do we scream in the night when it touches our dreams? No. We don't dream about it because we don't think about it; we don't think about it because we don't care about it. We are much more interested in law and order, so that American streets may be made safe while we transform those of (Iraq) into flowing sewers of blood which we replenish each year by forcing our sons to choose between a prison cell here or a coffin there. 'Every time I look at the flag, my eyes fill with tears.' Mine too.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood