Ryan B.

“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the human race will finally grow up with you and put aside childish things.”
― Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

“You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest pastime”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas