"I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake."

“Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.”

“My cousin Louie, we walk into a bar, and he says, Dom, I think that waitress knows me. What do you think she knows, Louie? The fact that your belly came in four steps ahead of you?”

“Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”

“Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.”

“I feel like my eyes have gonorrhea.”

“I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.120, Random House

“Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.”

“The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude ...”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.345