By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.

— S.A. Tawks

By three in the afternoon, after one Bin tang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

— S.A. Tawks

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?

— S.A. Tawks

Communism was born from a beautiful dream, the likes of which there will never be again on the face of this earth: that there would no longer be lazy men who eat their fill while others work hard and starve.

— Eka Kurniawan

Don’t be an asshole. Just because you have one, it doesn’t mean it’s okay to act like it.

— Christian Simamora

Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me.

— S.A. Tawks

Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.

— S.A. Tawks

Do you want me to call the internet police for you?

— S.A. Tawks

During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.

— Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?' I thought about a humanities' teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.

— Tucker Elliot