Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory…

“I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that…

— Mary Karr

Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able…

— Mary Karr

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

— Lori Lightfoot

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

— Will Rogers

“Interacting with a corrupt government judge is futile.”

— Steven Magee

“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To…

— Kamand Kojouri

I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

The Islamist camp is infused with a righteous indignation, as the forces of old, corrupt and rotten Egypt unite to try and drive them…

— Crispin Blunt

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

— Charles Edward Merriam

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

— Elia Suleiman

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave…

— Morton Irving Seiden

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

— Paul Park