“Ambition is a poor excuse for not being smart enough to be lazy.”
“I have two masters: laziness and ambition. Laziness is muscular, and ambition is brainy. When the two masters fight it out, guess who wins? That’s right, the slaves do.”
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
“And you think things will be better in San Lorenzo?""I know damn well they will be. The people down there are poor enough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have some common sense!”
“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.”