Louis Sachar Quotes
Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.
Sachar, Louis. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. Knopf, 1987, p. 4.
Referring to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet:
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Louis Sachar is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes.