Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hubert Selby, Jr.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.