Mika Auramo

“The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.”
― Robert Lifton

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest