We do not know if she collapsed because of overwhelming joy, extreme surprise, grave disappointment, or heavy anxiety that for the next months and years she would live with a human male, because in fact she had been honest when she told her girlfriends that she had given up on men, OR NONE OF THE ABOVE.

— Kyoko Yoshida

If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mouth – poets and storytellers recite their pieces and before we can commit them to memory, everything vanishes into thin air.

— Kyoko Yoshida

Trust, like money, needed a guarantee to back it.

— Seth Dickinson

Save the trees! Return to the gold standard!

— Ron Brackin

We have gold because we cannot trust governments.

— Herbert Hoover