Quotes

Hastiness

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.   Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( Russian December 1918 – 3 August 2008) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) was a Russian novelist,… Read More ›

Goverment

  Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.    P. J. O’Rourke Patrick Jake O’Rourke (November 14, 1947), known as P.J. O’Rourke, is an American political satirist and journalist. O’Rourke is the H. L…. Read More ›

Travel

  Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( Russian December 1918 – 3 August 2008) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) was a Russian… Read More ›

Stories

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.    Koren Zailckas Koren Zailckas (born 1980) is a bestselling American writer and memoirist. Her debut, Smashed, was released in 2005 by Viking… Read More ›