There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.