Satirists are famously also moralists, and Michel Houellebecq is no exception. Indeed, he’s a religious writer, even though his scabrous novels usually scoff at established religion.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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Satirists are famously also moralists, and Michel Houellebecq is no exception. Indeed, he’s a religious writer, even though his scabrous novels usually scoff at established religion.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
~ Iris Murdoch
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
~ Claude Shannon
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
~ Sun Tzu
I learned a lot from architecture.
~ Dieter Rams
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