"There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own."

“Love is a tyrant, resisted.”

“If a man knew how to live he would never die.”

“I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.”

“...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.”

“But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2004). “The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California”, p.55, Heyday

“All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.”

“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.”

“The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?”