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“The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.”
Source : Eric Felten (2011). “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
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“The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.”
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“My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.”
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“My sunglasses are like my guitar.”
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“I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.”
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“I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.”
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“War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization”
Source : "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.
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“Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.”