"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money,"

“He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?”, p.194, Vintage

“There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.”

“No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...”

Source : "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p.62, en.wikiquote.org. 1972.

“Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.”

“In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.”

“By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?”

“Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.”

“I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.”