Neil Faulconer

“People understand this about physical disabilities. Someone with a broken leg will not, for that reason alone, be denied a job that requires typing. We are comfortable with the idea that physical health is not just a single number but a multiplicity of factors. That’s where we need to arrive about mental problems, too.”
― Michael E. Kinsley, Old Age: A Beginner's Guide

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“Trumpism is a somewhat ambiguous concept. Trump is not a philosopher. He doesn’t have a political theory or any underlying beliefs. The only -isms that he has ever been associated with are racism and narcissism. The best summary of Trumpism is “billionaire-funded racial grievance politics.”
― Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

“We don’t have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse. We shiver. We struggle for release, and then it pecks out our eyes and intestines for sustenance and we die the death of field mice.”
― Tommy Orange, There There