"No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die.  Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it.  But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them."

From Herzog by Saul Bellow

"Literature is news that stays news" - Ezra Pound

"If we put everyone who's corrupt in jail, who will close the door?" - Fmr Gov. of Chihuahua