Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money.

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.

To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.

I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.