Derrick

“Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God…especially when their gods became threatened.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Fame is longing. Not yours, but the audience’s. A star is nothing more, nothing less, than the public face of private desire.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe