Joel

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Wishing just brought earned disappointment.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“but sometimes all the right things are as useless as nothing at all. Life,”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth