We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

Justina Chen

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.

Ambrose Bierce

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

Harvey Keitel

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Angela Davis

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Robert Penn Warren

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Virginia Woolf

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

Criss Jami

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries

William Shakespeare

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Rollo May