The truth is like poetry. And everyone fucking hates your poetry.

-Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar

The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone real ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

-Private author about US Politics

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled

-Mark Twain

In Geopolitics the phrase exists: “Doing so would be an international crime; but even worse than illegal, is ineffective.”

-Christopher Hudgens

Style is the stuff you get wrong.

-Neil Gaiman

Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes… They must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.

-Paul Kriwaczek

No man who opposes the unrighteousness of the state lives long if he is in a public position.

-Socrates, while at trial

The best thing about the future is, that it comes only one day at a time.

-Abraham Lincoln

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

-Jim Rohn

I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice, but I just wanted to do it so bad.

-Neko Case