“Every morning, to earn my bread,
I go to the market where lies are bought.
Hopefully
I take up my place among the sellers.”

Bertolt Brecht - “Hollywood” from “Poems in Exile” (1942)

“Is there anything more pathetic than a monster who keeps asking please? please? please?”

Brett Easton Ellis - “Lunar Park” (2005)

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

Mark Twain

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“It’s like being unchained from a lunatic.”

George Melly, discussing the positive side of impotence.

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“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation resisted”

James Branch Cabell

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“I have known many troubles in my life, and most of them never happened.”

Mark Twain

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“The future belongs to the few of us willing to get our hands dirty.”

Joseph Tommasi

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“Christs may come and Christs may go, but Caesar lives forever.”

Ragnar Redbeard

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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

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“The pompous son of a bitch knows everything - it’s too bad he doesn’t know anything else.”

Philip Roth in “The Plot Against America