I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
— Trent Reznor
(Source: cosa-salvatge, via markwhiting)
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know
— Henry Louis Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
— Henry Louis Mencken
A fine is a bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime.
— Henry Louis Mencken
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
— ‘The Books of Bokonon’ in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
The Fourteenth Book is entitled ‘What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experiences of the Past Million Years?” It doesn’t take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: “Nothing.”
— Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
