some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.