fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'