"When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher."

“I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.259, University of Missouri Press

“The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.”

“I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.”

“Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.”

“At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen.”

“I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.”

“Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if ***** get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do.”

Source : "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.