Charles T. Wallace

“As he left the White House for the last time, Trump walked over to a group of White House reporters and said, “It was a great honor. The honor of a lifetime.” He’s right. It was the honor of a lifetime. But unlike any of the forty-three presidents who served before him, he repaid that honor by betraying the very democratic system that made it possible for him to be president. We now live in a nation where a large part of the population does not trust our elections. There are many reasons for this, but none greater than Donald Trump and the lies he told about the 2020 election. —”
― Jonathan Karl, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

“They have also evolved to require a molecule called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD. As we will see later, the loss of NAD as we age, and the resulting decline in sirtuin activity, is thought to be a primary reason our bodies develop diseases when we are old but not when we are young.”
― David A. Sinclair, Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

“To live on, you have to make the good happen. A different life need not be a worse one. You have to decide if you’re the lucky one or not. Why live on otherwise?”
― Drew Magary, The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage

“Today the intellectual leaders of the Republican Party are the paranoids, kooks, know-nothings, and bigots who once could be heard only on late-night talk shows, the stations you listened to on long drives because it was hard to fall asleep while laughing. When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team.”
― Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump