Valentina Vekovishcheva

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”
― Peter De Vries

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
― Peter De Vries