William Watson

“Too-big-to-fail, meet small-enough-to-jail.”
― Matt Taibbi, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

“There was a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“The story Lucas labored over for years was in many senses a product of its time and the eras that had preceded it, but the dream he captured on celluloid turned out to be utterly malleable and exportable. Star Wars might just have the power to make Diné cool again. But isn’t this just a form of American cultural imperialism, in which Native people are surrendering to the forces of Hollywood? Wheeler has two words for that notion: “C’mon, dude.” Star Wars is not Hollywood.”
― Chris Taylor, How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise

“It’s not my fault you’re shit.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself