David Piccola

“O brave new world that has such people in it.”
― Kishore Tipirneni, New Eden

“There were many deaths like that and even though we knew about death and thought about it almost every day, when there was an unexpected death, and when that person was an exceptional and lovable human being, it was hard, very, no matter how many other people had died, good, bad or unknown.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Why sermonize about the superiority of your ideas and values when it was so much more effective to attack the motives and character of your opponents, to call them names, to question their love of country. The vice presidency of Spiro T. Agnew marked the birth of the bruising, know-nothing confrontational conservatism that has been eating the lunch of seemly, Kiwanis Club Republicanism ever since.”
― Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

“As Plautus said, lupus est homo homini. Man is a wolf to man. Inhumanity is often at its worst inside the family.”
― Paul Levine, To Speak for the Dead