For us to live any other way was nuts, to us those goody good people who worked shitty jobs, for bum pay checks, and took the subway to work every day, worried about their bills were dead, they were suckers, they had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad believe me they never complained again, it was just our routine, we didn't even think about it. -- Goodfellas 'Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally they won't swim. They were born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. -- Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf