Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.