Charley Claudio

“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“You think I'm insane?" said Finnerty. Apparently he wanted more of a reaction than Paul had given him.
"You're still in touch. I guess that's the test."
"Barely — barely."
"A psychiatrist could help. There's a good man in Albany."
Finnerty shook his head. "He'd pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." He nodded, "Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald