Daniel

“There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase market penetration. Their reasoning is that it is idiotic to make and sell a hundred thousand units of something and make 30 cents a unit when you can increase the advertising, sell five million units, and make a nickel profit a unit. Thus, the very good things of the world go down the drain, from honest turkey to honest eggs to honest tomatoes. And gin.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Dreadful Lemon Sky

“I just want you to know that if you ever need my help again, you'll have to blackmail me.”
― Richard Stark, The Blackbird

“The president is selling the country down the river with the help of the Supreme Court. Agree with us or you are a marked traitor. You know the sort of thing, all that tiresome pea-brained nonsense that attracts those people who are so dim-witted that the only way they can understand the world is to believe that it is all some kind of conspiracy.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Deadly Shade of Gold

“We are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life often come to us through some form of extreme hardship.”
― Robert White, Living an Extraordinary Life