Pete

“When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“Compulsive reading is a foolish and harmful abuse of an otherwise good thing, truly a great evil, as contagious as the yellow fever in Philadelphia.”
― Johann Gottfried Hoche

“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.”
― Mark Hanna