"They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard."

"A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella."

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"We believe he wanted to win in the worst way."

"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?"

"The end always passes judgement on what has gone before."

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

"Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated."

"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."

"Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego."

"In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist."