Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

Why play by the rules when we can make them ourselves?

Make your competition compete with you, rather than you compete with your competition.

We took a bus to Victoria, then passed on foot into a vast, desolate region of stucco streets and squares upon which a doom seemed to have fallen. The gloom was cosmic.

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves;

Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.