Do you get a percentage for every soul you corrupt or is this just how you get your kicks?” I enquired.“Take it as a compliment. I only try to corrupt people I like.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

It might be a little bit crazy, even. Like, for real crazy. Not just 'oh isn't that charming and endearing' crazy but 'wow that might be a deep-seated psychological issue' crazy.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.