"The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access"

“Homosexuals cannot reproduce-so they must recruit ... and to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America.”

Source : Anita Bryant (1977). “The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation's Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality”, Fleming H. Revell Company

“I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jean-Claude Van Damme from Aug 29, 2015

“I think my view is rather more radical than Pete Mandik's. Both of us want to show that colour perception doesn't transcend what can be conceptualized, but I don't think he goes so far as to deny that it doesn't involve different responses to all the discriminable surfaces.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

“We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.”

“We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3 Civilization would be galactic, like Star Wars. We are Type 0. We get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. But the question is: Will we make it? Will we make the transition from Type 0 to Type 1? It's not clear.”

“Just cause ***** get behind you don't mean they got your back Beware of the serpent...”

“The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.”

“Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again”

Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Final Country”, p.322, Vintage