Mike I.

“And I thought:History is like a horror story.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Amulet

“The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both.”
― Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin