"Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less."
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)

"Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be."
— William Faulkner

"You cant beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you dont even try to."
— William Faulkner

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."
— John Steinbeck

"A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

"I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything."
— John Steinbeck