Colleen

“each man sells what he possesses in good measure, resignation, humility, patience, may we continue to find people who trade in this world with such wares.”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I sit in a thickly padded chair that, much like this country, isn’t quite as comfortable as it looks.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead