If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

Life's not fair; why should I be?

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.

The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

I am not your justification for existence.