Bruce Roderick

“the University being an asylum, a refuge from the world, for the dispossessed, the crippled.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Oddjob turned and walked stolidly back towards them. When he was half way across the floor, and without pausing or taking aim, he reached up to his hat, took it by the rim and flung it sideways with all his force. There was a loud clang. For an instant the rim of the bowler hat stuck an inch deep in the panel Goldfinger had indicated, then it fell and clattered on the floor. Goldfinger smiled politely at Bond. ‘A light but very strong alloy, Mr Bond. I fear that will have damaged the felt covering, but Oddjob will put on another.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

“there is much that appears initially to be black and white and absolute, but later is revealed to be more gray than white or black.”
― Bob Lazar, Dreamland: An Autobiography

“I thought I was American, but in those days in Brooklyn, when you were asked what you were, you answered with a nationality other than your own. Since my parents were from Ireland, I was from a group called “Irish.”
― Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life: A Memoir