freedom and good books

Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will stay in touch.

~ Advice

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

~ Noam Chomsky (1928-) U.S. author

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

~ Ernest Hemingway

change, and interrupting

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
~ Advice

With a stop light, green means "go" and yellow means "slow down". With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means "go", green means "whoa, slow down" and red means "where the heck did you get that banana?"
~ Mitch Hedberg

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)