"The truth has a way of changing people's plans."

“When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.”

Source : "Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

“I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.”

“Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.”

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.97, University Press of Kentucky

“It's a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.”

“I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.”

“I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.”

“The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.”