"Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is 'Death to America'!"

“I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!”

“I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.”

“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.”

“They threw me off the haytruck about noon.”

Source : The Postman Always Rings Twice ch. 1 (1934)

“I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.”

“It is better to lose your life than to waste it.”

“One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, You are not a businessman. Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.”

“Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.”