Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.
I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
Make subtlety obvious.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success.
After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody to practice it.
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world. . . on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.
When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Annes in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.