Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
Theodore DreiserLife is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
Theodore DreiserLove is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.
Theodore DreiserRemember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.
Theodore Dreiser