Max Chiu

“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
― Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces

“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”
― Nathaniel Lee

“Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God