"For he who loses all often easily loses himself."

-- Primo Levi

“Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.”
“The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.”
“I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.”
“There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.”

Source : Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.103, Penguin
“The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.”
“It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.”
“Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.”

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