Famous People Quotes: the Sequel

I found this quote from Frank Zappa in an old German documentary.

I pretty much agree Frank...

"I take a very cynical point of view, I think that being cynical is a positive value, I think that nobody should trust anybody else, I think that all people are assholes until proven different, and I think that if you take that point of view you will be disappointed less in life.

Don't expect friends, don't expect fun, don't expect a good life, don't expect anything, then if you get something it's a bonus."

thoughts on things

This is from a Bob Herbert piece from the NYTimes back in October.


Al Gore is a serious man confronted by a political system that is not open to a serious exploration of important, complex issues. He knows it.

“What politics has become,” he said, with a laugh and a tinge of regret, “requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply.”

There's a lot I can relate to in that statement if you just replace politics with day to day existence, or say, the workplace, or any number of things that involve interacting with other people.

I suppose that's one reason I choose to essentially not participate in what passes for the normal American life.

Jesus Christ that sounds like a gratingly elitist statement but thems the facts.