Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Don't look at people like they're fools. I don't want to be misunderstand...and I don't want to be a fool again.

I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.

Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.