John

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“Chutes and Ladders was perhaps the most sadistic board game ever invented. Adults loathed the game; children loved it. The universe thus dictated that an adult invariably got snookered into playing the game with a child.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

“Surely we all dealt with and reconciled ourselves to a life many of whose features were out of our control. It was part of living in a world full of other people with other interests.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System