Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier

The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone

I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.