“Flowers for $25.00, reluctant. Wining and dining for $150.00, catastrophic. Trying to get on first base, unattainable. For everything else there's Masturbate.”

"Is There More," Scorpion (2018)

Source: The Color Purple (1982)

Bernard, section VIII
The Waves (1931)
Context: We have dined well. The fish, the veal cutlets, the wine have blunted the sharp tooth of egotism. Anxiety is at rest. The vainest of us, Louis perhaps, does not care what people think. Neville’s tortures are at rest. Let others prosper — that is what he thinks. Susan hears the breathing of all her children safe asleep. Sleep, sleep, she murmurs. Rhoda has rocked her ships to shore. Whether they have foundered, whether they have anchored, she cares no longer.

Source: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Context: The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.

Variant: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

section VIII
The Waves (1931)

Source: The Age of Innocence

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 5

&quot;Problems We Face Together&quot;, Representative Steve Kagen, United States House of Representatives, 2007-07-21 http://kagen.house.gov/issues.shtml#edu, <br class="br">Education