Nancy Oakes

“There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Drowning Pool

“My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov