Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.