Government was founded on the working premise of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence, for the private business failures among your or your wife’s kin whom otherwise you yourself would have to support.
Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Between what did happen and what ought to happened, I dont never have trouble picking ought.
Because as a rule women dont really care about facts just so they fit; it’s just men that dont give a damn whether they fit or not.
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
A Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefooted Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write.
