Clint Rizzo

“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Is-sens issibu fejn insibu jien u jsibu kull min irid: fil-Kruċifissjoni, Susanna. Is-Salib waħdu jrid jispjega kollox. Fuq il-Golgota trid tfittxu s-sens, fil-miżerji ta' Kristu bla ħtija, msawwat u msallab u mibgħud u maqtul. Ħares madwarek u tara elf Golgota u elf salib. Ħares iżjed u tinduna li hemm tant Golgoti u tant slaleb oħra li lanqas biss tista' tarahom. Qegħdin ġewwa, moħbijin f'min jixtieq ikun hieni- u m'huwiex.”
― Oliver Friggieri, It-Tfal Jiġu bil-Vapuri