Cathy Sargent

“...the second was Montaigne's maxim that the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.”
― Amor Towles

“Knowing almost nothing about books or serious magazines, intellectually he is a creature of the movie house, where he is an easy prey to fantasies concocted by Hollywood for the gullible. He”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“the city in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in America could be an alluring place; but it also often was, for persons without brains or money or simply good luck, a crucible in which the superficial elements of personality and civilization were quickly burned away, to reveal the animal underneath. As”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“By 2000, six years after NAFTA was implemented, trade between Mexico and the United States had tripled, to $247 billion, and the four bridges that connected Nuevo Laredo to Laredo saw 60,000 trucks go north per week.”
― Dan Slater, Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel