Michael Mangold

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ”
― Ayn Rand

“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”
― H.L. Mencken