Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their place on the shelf along with the belief in witches and the notion that the earth is the center of the solar system.  Nobody knows as yet whether the future [of the race situation] is hopeless. All we know is that it can be made hopeless, if enough people choose to consider it so.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.