Diane

“She hated people that thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

“Meg felt cold and pulled her battered quilt around her shoulders. She remembered Mrs. O'Keefe calling on all Heaven with its power, and though shudderingly that she would settle for one large, loving dog.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“Failure thus to examine ourselves limits the long-term effectiveness of response, and brackets us with the mentality of the fanatic who, literally, never seeks to recover, indeed is incapable of recovering, a long-since receded moment of doubt, the zone of possible choices, the potential of the routes not taken.”
― Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World

“The student newspaper contains a lot more humor, though most of it is unintentional. Except for the front page (campus news) and the back page (sports), the campus rag contains little but letters to the editor, which I scan first for allusions to myself and next for unusual content, which in the current climate is any subject other than the unholy trinity of insensitivity, sexism, and bigotry, which the self-righteous, though not always literate, letter writers want their readers to know they're against. As a group they seem to believe that high moral indignation offsets and indeed outweighs all deficiencies of punctuation, spelling, grammar, logic, and style. In support of this notion there's only the entire culture.”
― Richard Russo, Straight Man