Chris

“There has probably never been a generation since the paleolithic that did not deplore the fecklessness of the next and worship a golden memory of the past.”
― Matt Ridley

“Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won’t ever make em muffins.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“The cornucopia that greets you as you enter the supermarket dwarfs anything that Louis XIV ever experienced (and it is probably less likely to contain salmonella).”
― Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist

“The next morning, Louie was taken to an airfield to be flown to Okinawa, where many POWs were being collected before being sent home. Seeing a table stacked with K rations, he began cramming the boxes under his shirt, brushing off an attendant who tried to assure him that he didn't have to hoard them, as no one was going to starve him anymore. Looking extremely pregnant, Louie boarded the plane.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption