“Make people depend on you for their happiness and prosperity and you have nothing to fear. Never teach them enough so that they can do without you.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“It's hopeless. Thats why you cant be worried about the world. They'll just do you in anyway. You cant depend on them because sooner or later they'll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone.’”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leav…”— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.com