“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”

“Si usa uno specchio di vetro per guardare il viso; e si usano le opere d’arte per guardare la propria anima.”

“The 100% American is 99% idiot.”

“Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?”

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”

“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”

“The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.”