Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

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

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

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

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.