"Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run"

“Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.”

“Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.”

“I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.”

“Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. ... Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (1970). “Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung”

“Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.”

“I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.”

“She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.”

“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.”