Josh Kay

“In every age everybody knows that up to his own time, progressive improvement has been taking place; nobody seems to reckon on any improvement in the next generation. We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who say society has reached a turning point – that we have seen our best days. But so said all who came before us and with just as much apparent reason. ... On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, Critical, historical and miscellaneous essays Volume 1

“Keep it bouncing," he'd told her once, "that's all the secret, keep it bouncing.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick