Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.