It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm