Mark Kazzaz

“People sometimes call our nation “the American experiment.” Recently, though, we’ve been lab rats in another, perverse American experiment, seemingly designed to answer this question: Who’s the most ignorant person the United States is willing to elect?”
― Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

“Fourteen? Great Galaxy— Tell me, has she ever said she expects to marry someday?” “No, she hasn’t. Not to me.” “Well, if she ever does, shoot him. The one she’s going to marry, I mean.” He stared earnestly into the older man’s eyes. “I’m serious. Life could hold no greater horror than living with what she’ll be like when she’s twenty. I don’t mean to offend you, of course.” “You don’t offend me. I think I know what you mean.”
― Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation

“He’d had enough experience of both kinds of misfortune to know that there was a vast difference between feeling yourself a victim of random strokes of fate and having to accept that your troubles had been brought about by your own folly.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

“... it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard, but this you must manage somehow...”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm