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

“Telling the Parkses your father was an African chieftan has the same sound to me as the white man telling me I'm a nigger.”
― Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog

“He could not see why beautiful maidens should marry and become slaves of men who would take them for granted when they could just as well remain carefree and do nothing but play games and write verses.”
― Cao Xuegin

“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