Kyle Lai

“For, of course, at bottom, no subject is naive. Every hoodwinked widow, every deceived lover, every betrayed friend, every subject of writing knows on some level what is in store for him, and remains in the relationship anyway, impelled by something stronger than his reason.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer

“The prisoner imagines freedom to be more wonderful than it is.”
― Alphonse Daudet

“Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. The poor man has always a precise view of his problem and its remedy: he hasn't enough and needs more.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

“We had a friend, a poor fellow, who, with his last pennies, bought a metal wind-up canary. We cracked our heads trying to explain this act, until we recalled that our friend was simply very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoi