The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.