Daniel

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

“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

“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

“Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.”
― John D. MacDonald