"After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world."

“God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.”

“That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now it's like if you don't agree with somebody, you probably aren't going to like their jokes. I think comedians are starting to write for their audience and not towards the country.”

“The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.”

Source : Andrew Vachss (2001). “Footsteps of the Hawk”, p.289, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.”

Source : Suzette Haden Elgin (1980). “The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense”, Prentice Hall

“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”

“I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.”

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

“Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.”

“A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.”