Bernie Starzewski

“That Europe is nothin' on earth but a great big auction, that's all it is, that bunch of old worn-out places, it's just a big fire-sale, the whole rutten thing.”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“On the other hand, there is no more potent dwarfing of the present than by viewing it as a mere link between a glorious past and a glorious future. Thus, though a mass movement at first turns its back on the past, it eventually develops a vivid awareness, often specious, of a distant glorious past. Religious movements go back to the day of creation; social revolutions tell of a golden age when men were free, equal, and independent; nationalist movements revive or invent memories of past greatness.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm