Laurie Davis

“Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

“Free speech is unthinkable. All other kinds of freedom are permitted. You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Truth

“When night draws back the curtain,
And pins it with a star,
Remember you are still my friend,
Though you may wander far”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities