H. Givens

“Everybody works according to his ability, some doing more, some doing less, but everyone ought to know whether he is doing good or harm.”
― Sergei Obraztsov, My Profession

“THE LORD. You've nothing more to say to me? You come but to complain unendingly? Is never aught right to your mind?
MEPHISTOPHELES. No, Lord! All is still downright bad, I find.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“It was soon painfully clear that when he looked at me what he mainly saw was a cute animal, clownish and a little stupid, something like a very small dog with buckteeth. He had no inkling of my true character, that I was in fact grossly cynical, moderately vicious, and a melancholy genius, or that I had read more books than he had.”
― Sam Savage, Firmin

“Puppets do not have thoughts, they are more like our thoughts, images of our thoughts, as if our minds were populated with remnants of the older, more cliched stories that we manipulate and that manipulate us.”
― Kenneth Gross, Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life