The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

- Robert Jackson Bennett

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of …

- Robert Jackson Bennett

Forgettingis a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at…

- Robert Jackson Bennett

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

- Robert Jackson Bennett

I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling the…

- Robert Jackson Bennett

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

- Robert Jackson Bennett

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

- Robert Jackson Bennett

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

- Robert Jackson Bennett