The Serpent's Shadow Important Quotes & Sayings

The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don't think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework, but when I see his drawings, I know they're wrong. — Stephanie Perkins

The Westway, the old strip club on Clarkson Street, is still there, but today it's owned by a hipster restaurant entrepreneur who caters to the ironic cultural lifestylers, more fashion world than art, people who are "cool" because they live in New York. — Kim Gordon

And a few months later, an opinion poll found that 54 percent of the American people wanted the United Nations to become a world government with power to control the armed forces of all nations, including the United States. — Eric Schlosser

Essentially, boredom is centered upon time, on the horror of time, on the fear of time, the disclosure of time, the awareness of time. Those who are not aware of time passing do not get bored. It's not the time that passes, it's the time that doesn't pass. — Emil Cioran

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. — Henry David Thoreau

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell. — John Adams

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway. — Dave Van Ronk