“All my associates, all of my surroundings, the atmosphere of deceit, treachery, brutality, degeneracy, hypocrisy, and everything that is bad and nothing that is good. Why am I what I am? I'll tell you why. I did not make myself what I am. Others had the making of me.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“You know that I spent several years in one of those places [reform school] when I was a boy and the so-called Training that I received while there is mainly the cause of my being the degenerate beast that I am today. I have thought about that system of Training young boys for all of my life and I kn…”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“Kindness is a weapon men use to get what they want.”— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Justin Doble, The Widow, Emily Beecham, imdb.com
“The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election; something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”— Juan Gabriel Vásquez, amazon.com
“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”— Miranda July, amazon.com