"When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy"

“I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.”

Source : Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.35, Dell

“Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.”

“We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.”

“I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.”

“Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.”

“The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.”

“There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.”

Source : "Inside/out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories". Book edited by Diana Fuss, 1991.

“[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”