Kris McCracken

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984