Juan Carlos

“Being funny for its own sake is very estimable. It's a nice thing but if you continue to be very funny, if you persist in it, you turn into a crank, like any other crank, because you become clever and you're always alert for an opportunity to make another crack and then you become silly. There has to be measure in these things and the humor has to be your humor and it has to be natural to you and without strain. So wit is a very good thing but persistent cleverness in wit can be very boring and trying to people.”
― Saul Bellow

“There are some things he doesn't want to know about himself, and others he doesn't want anybody else to know. Which makes him like the rest of us. ...
There are moments in the lives of others that excite both our disgust and our shame, the fear of what we ourselves might do. ...
I venture to say that everyone on this jury, and everyone in this room, has done things that they're ashamed of, and told lies that they regret.”
― Richard North Patterson, Silent Witness

“Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Most men, the herd, have never tasted solitude. They leave father and mother, but only to crawl to a wife and quietly succumb to new warmth and ties. They are never alone, they never commune with themselves. And when a solitary man crosses their path, they fear him and hate him like the plague, they fling stones at him and find no peace until they are far from him.”
― Hermann Hesse