David

“Visiting his neighbours’ apartments, he would find himself physically repelled by the contours of an award-winning coffee-pot, by the well-modulated colour schemes, by the good taste and intelligence that, Midas-like, had transformed everything in these apartments into an ideal marriage of function and design. In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

“The Limerick Leader reported that ‘To-day there’s many an O’Grady from Clare, who regard Muhammad Ali as one of their own.”
― Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

“the knowledge underlying civilization is so widespread today that complete annihilation would be more probable than a long period of darkness followed by recovery.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Illiterate and a nervous stammerer, she is nevertheless as resourceful and intuitive as the world was before it learned to read.”
― Alfred Kazin, NEW YORK JEW: An Autobiography