Dave Geary

“This one had been prescribed to him by his Internal Affairs psychiatrist, Dr. Carter Pillar, an eccentric out-of-this-world professor who looked like he needed a psychiatrist himself.”
― Cameron Jace, The Fairytale Code

“The motto of Dwayne Hoover’s and Kilgore Trout’s nation was this, which meant in a language nobody spoke anymore, Out of Many, One: “E pluribus unum.” The undippable flag was a beauty, and the anthem and the vacant motto might not have mattered much, if it weren’t for this: a lot of citizens were so ignored and cheated and insulted that they thought they might be in the wrong country, or even on the wrong planet, that some terrible mistake had been made. It might have comforted them some if their anthem and their motto had mentioned fairness or brotherhood or hope or happiness, had somehow welcomed them to the society and its real estate. If”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“He loved his family and fellow man, never raised his voice or fists, and was rewarded with a lifelong, routine digestion of small doses of humiliation.”
― Tim Dorsey, Triggerfish Twist