Today

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

- Marilyn Monroe

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”

- Robert A. Heinlein

Raise your glass to the hard working people

Let's drink to the uncounted heads

Let's think of the wavering millions

Who need leaders but get gamblers instead

- Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

— Arthur Miller

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

- Voltaire

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”

- Confucius, The Analects

“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”

- Carrie Jones, Captivate

"She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.”

- Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

“It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.”

- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.”

- Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America