A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy