Christmas Parties and Karaoke

"Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less."
From Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

"the relaxed truths of tired liars"
from a random mystery novel on my shelf

"Every burned book enlightens the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them."
-George Orwell, author, c. 1945