Bill

“Her name was Mildred Atkinson and she had led a very stupid life. Grade school, high school—Hollywood High but she was no beauty queen—business college and a job in an insurance office. She was twenty-six years old and she was a good girl, her parents sobbed. She played bridge with girl friends and she once taught a Sunday-school class. She didn’t have any particular gentleman friend, she went out with several. Not often, you could bet. The only exciting thing that had ever happened to her was to be raped and murdered. Even then she’d only been subbing for someone else.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place

“At the riding pace I would need to maintain for my double-transcontinental feat, physiologist calculated the effort being equivalent to doing a full Ironman Triathlon every day. ...it would be similar to climbing 102 flights of stairs to the top of the Empire State Building 40 times per day.”
― Lon Haldeman, PROOF: Cycling Pioneer: A Record-Setting Ride from New York City to Los Angeles and Back

“I bet there were thousands of better cyclists capable of going faster. The only thing that made me unique was that I was out here doing it.”
― Lon Haldeman, PROOF: Cycling Pioneer: A Record-Setting Ride from New York City to Los Angeles and Back

“Everybody was screaming for joy. That's what children do - they scream because life is just too much for them but they don't know it yet.”
― Walter Mosley, Black Betty