Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation.

-John Updike

Looking backward fucks with your neck

-Gary Vaynerchuk

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

– H. L. Mencken

No piece in a World Chess Champion set is harder to make than the knight, that alone takes 2 hours to hand carve each time.

-Business Insider

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

-C.S. Lewis

I’m Lowell Bergman, I’m from 60 Minutes. You know, you take the 60 Minutes out of that sentence, nobody returns your phone call.

-“The Insider” 1999

To preserve power indefinitely, you have to get consent of the ruled. They have to want, to some degree, to be dominated.

-Unknown

engaged in intraspecies protein reallocation in order to maintain metabolic integrity

-Unknown

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted

-Ralph Waldo Emerson