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

“We just sent a spaceship up into space today,” said Congressman E. Clay Shaw, Jr., of Florida, “and we can from space…pinpoint where every cocaine leaf is on the face of this earth that is growing out in the sunshine. We can do it.”
― Donovan X. Ramsey, When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

“A squirrel, from the lofty depths of his domestic tree, chattered either in anger or merriment—for a squirrel is such a choleric and humorous little personage, that it is hard to distinguish between his moods—so he chattered at the child, and flung down a nut upon her head.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“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