"When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path"

“Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.”

“Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.”

“Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.”

“If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.”

“We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.”

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

Source : Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

“I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.”

“Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?”

Source : "Fictional character: Roy Dillon". "The Grifters", www.imdb.com. 1990.