Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
“I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.”
“I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.”