Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Hope is a waking dream.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.