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“I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.”
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“Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.”
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“Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.”
Source : Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”
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“Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.”
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“I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.”
Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.
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“Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.”
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“The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.”
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“Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.”