My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause

William Shakespeare

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

Jack Vance

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

Une religion, par exemple, qui doit être transformée en savoir historique, une religion qui doit être étudiée de part en part scientifiquement, une fois cette étape franchie, sera par l? même détruite. Toute vérificatiuon historique amène au jour tant de choses fausses, grossières, inhumaines, absurdes, violentes que, forcément, se dissipe l'atmosphère d'illusion pieuse où tout ce qui a le désir de vivre peut seul prospérer.Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 7

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Cindy Crawford

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Oscar Wilde

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Socrates

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Studs Terkel

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

Kin Hubbard

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Henry David Thoreau