Sam Roberts

“He was a Confederate sympathizer who opposed slavery, not because he thought Black people were equal, but because he worried it would make white people lazy.”
― Antonia Hylton, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

“When you’re twenty-four,” Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“A complex and controversial figure, Lacan held therapy sessions for ten minutes or three hours, seduced patients, freely belched and farted, all while rubbing shoulders with the most prominent intellectuals of his day.”
― Alexa Hagerty, Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

“Oh, I’m dying,’ I like moaned. ‘Oh, I have a ghastly pain in my side. Appendicitis, it is. Ooooooh.’ ‘Appendy shitehouse,’ grumbled this veck,”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange