Trevor May

“Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I think you’re going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.’ ‘For what?’ I asked. Nightingale hesitated. ‘Quoting, mainly,’ he said. ‘And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“The only effect of the words of powerless people on the Internet was to inflict misery on other powerless people.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

“Leisure without study is death—a tomb for the living person.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living