It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.
Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. . . . Businessmen, in particular, in the '20s really believed that to be a success, an entrepreneur needed to have a personality, a sense that you were a success. That's why I think Capone dressed the way he did. And that's why he entertained the press — because he wanted to be perceived as a successful American. Dale Carnegie. . . would later cite Capone as a model for creating the public image. Obviously, it went bad in many ways for Capone, but that's the image he was going for.
There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.
A simple leather jacket. . . has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.