Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. PS. - Charles Dickens

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. PS. - Ezra Pound

"The deeper question is no longer whether people can handle the truth. The question is whether truth still matters once it is competing not merely with a more compelling narrative, but with a more compelling experience." (Art Berman) #collapse

Like so many other pathological personalities in positions of power a million years ago, he might do almost anything on impulse, feeling nothing much. The logical explanations for his actions, invented at leisure, always came afterwards. PS. - Kurt Vonnegut,  Galápagos

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. - A Farewell to Arms

I didn't see it, but it sounds barbaric. It's become like cock-fighting: poor dumb brutes being set upon each other by conniving television producers. PS. - B. Johnson, Focus: Big Brother brawl

Every year, on the morning of Shrove-Tuesday, the schoolboys of the city of London, and of other cities and great towns, bring game cocks to their masters, and in the fore-part of the day, till dinner-time, are permitted to amuse themselves with seeing them fight. PS. - John Harland

I’m a man of the world, and all that means is I understand what powers the world. The fuel mix is one part high-octane to nine parts pure bullsh*t. PS. - Stephen King, The Dead Zone

Narrator: The whole scope of advertising and propaganda comes from the October Revolution and the market crash of 1929. PS. - Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing. PS. - Isaac Asimov,  Foundation

Think I popped one to many Zyns..can hear things from like miles away…then again..maybe it’s just the voices of the ancients.

“If you don’t like what you are reaping, you better change what you have been sowing.” – J. Rohn

“I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.” - A Tale of Two Cities

Once upon a time in the future, robovans will carry robo-sapiens, apes advanced in feats of silicon, yet degraded in feats of sentience. PS. - Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen. PS. - Rob Thomas

Roy Neary: Look, I guarantee you that this whole thing is a put-on. PS. - Close Encounters of The Third Kind

"Where are you going?" I asked. "The middle of nowhere." "I thought this was it." "Nah....This is just the edge." PS. - Lucy Christopher, Stolen

The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively, the will of man and the lunacy of God. PS. - James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“The gods wrote in the world a law for all to follow, but it cannot apply to me because I’m their equal. Therefore I will live outside this law and grow without limit. To be limited is evil.” PS. - Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

"But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be." PS. - P.D. James, The Children of Men

Civility takes sustained awareness of oneself and others. theconversation.com/why-sophrosy...

When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too. PS. - The Equalizer

Magic is the art and science of causing changes in consciousness in accordance with will. PS. - John Michael Greer, The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power

They are in bad faith — they are afraid — and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls. PS. - Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies

"In this era of big brains, anything which can be done will be done -- so hunker down." PS. - Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

Dr. Zwiezic: Autopsy attended by Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta, Chicago homicide. I heard your ex got custody of the dog. Lt. D'Agosta: Is it on the goddamn internet? Dr. Zwiezic: You shouldn't have been late on your ALPO payments. PS. - The Relic

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears. PS. - Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

The truth is the ugly side no one wants to see. PS. - A Meredith Walters

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours. PS. - Ernest Becker

Low rider don't use no gas now Low rider don't drive too fast . . . Take a little trip, take a little trip Take a little trip and see. - War

Men are respectable only as they respect. PS. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect. PS. - A.C. Grayling

“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.” PS. - Marc Bekoff

“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.” PS. - Hunter S. Thompson

I can't stand that sh*t - people talking about things they think they should talk about, so as not to be socially awkward. PS. - Nick Bradley, El gato y la ciudad

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots? PS. - Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one. PS. - Charles Bukowski

When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results. PS. - James Clear

In the end, nature is an unstoppable force. It is resilient, adaptable, and essential to our survival. We may try to control it, but nature always wins in the end. PS. - GoodVibeStyle

Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. PS. - Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Genius is not enough, it takes courage to change people's hearts. PS. - Green Book

He was always in a hurry to get where he was not. PS. - Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. PS. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

But given the state of the country, and the world, and the planet, I expect the late, great tobacco enthusiast to take one look at the world and tell us, “Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.”