John Sayles > Quotes

“That is the definition of faith, hermano," says Figueroa. "Something that we believe in even though it doesn't work."
Eres un cinicio."
If it worked, it would be science.”
― John Sayles, Los Gusanos

“He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.”
― John Sayles, Los Gusanos

“You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world — them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you need to know about the enemy.”
― John Sayles

“The only difference between dancing and fucking," he said in those days, "is that you don't fuck in front of a live band.”
― John Sayles, Los Gusanos

“It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester souls.”
― John Sayles, Los Gusanos

“What is the point of knowledge if you can't use it to prevail over others?”
― John Sayles, A Moment in the Sun

“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.”
― John Sayles, Los Gusanos

“To survive or to perish in denial, were equal triumphs, were two fronts in a long battle.”
― John Sayles, Los Gusanos