Billy Waldie

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky