Wayne Shankel

“Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin