“[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.”
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
“How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day? If I 'believe' for two minutes once every month or so, I'm doing well.”
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ”
“Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.”
“The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.”