People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. – George William Russell
I was horrible at science and math. I couldnt pass a test to save my life! Im surprised that it didnt take me until I was 20 to graduate. Thats why my role is so cool – Grissom is the complete opposite of me. – William Petersen
If Id written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. – Hunter S. Thompson