'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.
We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!
Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.
On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.