"Criminals might be victims of circumstance in the sense that few of them ever had a fair chance; but it was a mistake to forget that the only 'fair chance' they ever wanted was a chance for easy money."

--James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

--Samuel Johnson