“The average newspaper boy in Pittsburgh knows more about the universe than did Galileo, Aristotle, Leonardo, or any of those other guys who were so smart they only needed one name.”
“The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.”
“Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.”
“The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know.”
“Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.”
“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”