“Mr. Brooks, I believe… I think that is something that rich white guys dreamed up to keep guys like me down. I honestly don’t believe there is such a thing, such a feeling. Guilty? That’s just something the man says in court when your luck runs out.”
- Franklyn Seales as Jimmy Lee ‘Youngblood’ Smith in The Onion Field(1979)
“What do you wanna do? You wanna go back to our normal lives? That’s fine. We can do that. I can teach all day. You can stay home and write and surf the web. And on the weekends, we can get wasted at various art installations or sneak forties into random foreign films and then it’s suddenly, like, we wake up and, whoops, where did our twenties go?”
“I felt this terrible sense of loss. Like when you wake up from dreaming about someone you loved so much. And you turn around in bed and remember that they’ve been dead for years.”