I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
I'm not much like myself any more.
Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.