"I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos."

“She makes love just like a woman.”

“This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.”

“Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.”

“It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.”

“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.”

“There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.”

Source : Zane Grey (2015). “ZANE GREY Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure Tales & Baseball Stories (60+ Titles in One Volume): Riders of the Purple Sage, The Border Legion, Wildfire, Desert Gold, Betty Zane, The Last Trail, The Heritage of the Desert, The Lone Star Ranger, Arizona Clan, To the Last Man, The Day of the Beast…”, p.7307, e-artnow

“People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.”

“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.”