"The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even to the depths of my entrails. I felt the beginings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro, but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another."

-- John Howard Griffin

#Loneliness Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“Did people waste time before the internet existed?”
“In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot”
“I think it's very important to feed the body what it craves and not be in your head about it, panicking, carrying around some calorie-counting wheel in your bag or something equally absurd. I'm really not a fan of that at all.”
“There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.”
“I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.”
“What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.”

Source : "A killer conversation with the two Mikes of mystery". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 8, 2012.
“I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the time, so I decided to decorate other people's homes and buildings.”
“We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.”

Source : Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, Rowman & Littlefield

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