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Performance Anomalies

Victor Robert Lee

Top 10 Best Quotes

“If it’s not one god it’s another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.”

“The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don’t know who to fear. Isn’t that why god was invented?”

“A kite only flies if it’s tethered.”

“Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.”

“To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.”

“Ah, men losing the power in their dicks. When they can no longer f___ their women, they f___ the world.”

“Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone.”

“It’s a heavy responsibility, having saved someone’s life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it’s hard to know if you did the right thing.”

“Imagine the joy of that - of not being beneath that big thumb. Imagine no longer being a beetle, but being a man.”

“Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.”

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