New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William H. Mauldin