Larry

“Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.”
― Walter Benjamin

“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

“And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.

Therefore, Farewell:”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville