the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896.

Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.

I bet all I had on a thing called love

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

I do Skid Row every night.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.