It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

Get rid of pride

What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?

Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.

Don't carry logs into the forest.

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.