“I'm from the city rich desire to live in. Glass on the floor from breaking out of this prison / prism.”

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”

Jonathan Kellerman (1949) novelist, psychologist

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet

“Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“I'm not an alarmist, but someone should break the glass, and pull that red T-Lever down!”

Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist

“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”

Terry Pratchett book Snuff

“I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.”

Thomas Harris (1940) American author and screenwriter

“Years from now, when I'm successful and happy,… and he's in prison… I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“Saigon is like all the other great modern cities of the world. It's the mess left from people getting rich.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!”

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven