Pete Barlak

“Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Are you decent?" Richards asked.
"Yes!" she stormed. "isn't that why you picked on me? Because I was defenseless and... decent?"...
"If you're so decent, how come you have six thousand New Dollars to buy this fancy car while my little girls dies of flu?”
― Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

“Crowd was to be pleased. Crowd was to be worshipped and feared. Ultimately, Crowd was to be made sacrifice unto.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“I, the unfortunate Doctor Polyakov, who became addicted to morphine in February of this year, warn anyone who may suffer the same fate not to attempt to replace morphine with cocaine. Cocaine is a most foul and insidious poison. Yesterday Anna barely managed to revive me with camphor injections and today I am half dead.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Morphine