Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Why is there always a secret singing when a lawyer cashes in? Why does a hearse horse snicker hauling a lawyer away?

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.