Vishal Khatri

“all forms of vitality are forms of velocity, and no wonder a growing child desires to out-Nature Nature by filling a minimum stretch of time with a maximum of spatial enjoyment. Innermost in man is the spiritual pleasure derivable from the possibilities of outtugging and outrunning gravity, of overcoming or re-enacting the earth's pull.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

“I was surprised by what I found; moreover, because I came away with a knowledge that I had not possessed before, I was also grateful, and surprised by that as well. I had not expected the violence to be so pleasurable....This is, if you like, the answer to the hundred-dollar question: why do young males riot every Saturday? They do it for the same reason that another generation drank too much, or smoked dope, or took hallucinogenic drugs, or behaved badly or rebelliously. Violence is their antisocial kick, their mind-altering experience, an adrenaline-induced euphoria that might be all the more powerful because it is generated by the body itself, with, I was convinced, many of the same addictive qualities that characterize synthetically-produced drugs”
― Bill Buford, Among the Thugs

“The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”
― James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era