Juan Bosco

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

“As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.”
― Doris Lessing