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“I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.”
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“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”
Source : Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1182, Library of Alexandria
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“Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.”
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“Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.”
Source : "Alan Menken Discusses 'Tangled' and the Past, Present, and Future of the Animated Musical". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, www.ew.com. November 24, 2010. 
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“A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.”
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“I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.”
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“We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.”
Source : J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin
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“You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.”
