“All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence.”

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up.”

“In our beautiful memoryWe were all handsomeWe could all singWe all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in townAnd we all hit .300”

“And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked.”

“Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?”

“لا داعى للخوف من صوت الرصاص ..فالرصاصة التى تقتلك لن تسمع صوتها..!!تستطيع أن تعرف كم عمرك ، من خلال حجم الألم الذي تشعر به حين تكون في مواجهة فكرة جديدة !(بيرل بوك)” You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea !”

“To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”