"War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy."

“To me, my feelings and pride are important. Although I like you it's not enough to be used like that.”

“A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.”

“For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.”

“Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.”

“He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.”

Source : Julia Spencer-Fleming (2015). “The Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Series, Books 4-6: To Darkness and to Death; All Mortal Flesh; I Shall Not Want”, p.629, Macmillan

“I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.”

“All I need are chocolates, credit card, and stilettos.”

“I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.”

Source : "The Lawmen". Book by Alton Pryor (p. 103), 2006.