I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death ...among Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three befor...e the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart.... And death who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the... spiritual athlete must crash through.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man's partner's killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him, he ...was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. As it happens, we're in the detective business; well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's, it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. Bad all around. Bad for every detective everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you ...do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »