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

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

“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

“I simply must say, as crass as we are conditioned by a troubled society to regard the word, I am a firm believer in the comparative merits of the word ‘fuck.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System