I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
John SteinbeckWhat a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.
John SteinbeckAmerican cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.
John Steinbeck