John

“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

“Oh, God—the lives people try to lead. Oh, God—what a world they try to lead them in!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“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