mike toscano

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
― Charles Dickens

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
― Stephen Fry

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”
― Mark Twain