Gattos Downers Quotes

#1. I kept my poker face on and listened to him with an air of interest and respect (I thought of what it says in one of Rand's novels, how the winner can afford to be generous).

Harvey Pekar

#2. In valor there is hope.

Tacitus

#3. The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

Leo Strauss

#4. I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say

Albert Camus

#5. Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure,

Debby Applegate

#6. Her laugh. The way she smoked before she gave up. Smoke trickling up her nostrils. Spokes of smoke when she spoke.

Craig Raine

#7. There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Bill Gates