“Every time you went into the library,” said the book, “the Creator of the Universe held His breath. With such a higgledy-piggledy cultural smorgasbord before you, what would you, with your free will, choose?” “Your parents were fighting machines and self-pitying machines,” said the book. “Your mother was programmed to bawl out your father for being a defective moneymaking machine, and your father was programmed to bawl her out for being a defective housekeeping machine. They were programmed to bawl each other out for being defective loving machines. “Then your father was programmed to stomp out of the house and slam the door. This automatically turned your mother into a weeping machine. And your father would go down to a tavern where he would get drunk with some other drinking machines. Then all the drinking machines would go to a whorehouse and rent fucking machines. And then your father would drag himself home to become an apologizing machine. And your mother would become a very slow forgiving machine.” Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions
" Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. " - George Orwell "A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and is confirmed only by other men. Feminist fantasies about the ideal “sensitive” male have failed. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all." - Camille Paglia
10/13 " The scariest moment is always just before you start." - Stephen King, on Writing. 10/24 " All men's miseries come from their inability to sit quiet and alone." - Blaise Pascal " It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just aint so." - Mark Twain 10/26 In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is." - Yogi Berra " Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." - Howard Marks " Good times teach only bad lessons." - Howard Marks " Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong." Howard Marks
10/20 “I don’t deserve this honor – but, then, I have arthritis, and
I don’t deserve that either.” Jack Benny
“If you don’t know whose side someone is on, he’s probably not on yours.” - Warren Buffett "Having a rich daddy can lead to sloppy decisions." - Warren Buffett “Develop your eccentricities
when young. That way, when you get older, people won’t think you are going gaga.” - David Ogilvy “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” - Charles Darwin 10/28 " The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on." - Oscar Wilde Cockroach rule " Where there is one, there are many." " Predicting rain doesn't count; building ark does." - Warren Buffett
