“What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.”

“Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;Character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God”

“...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.”

“My name is my reputation. And all I have in this world is my name. Well, and my penis, which shoots out millions of other names.”

“If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“When a bill was put before the state legislature in Jefferson City that would have prohibited anyone who owned a saloon from holding elective office and reporters asked what he thought of it, Alderman Jim said probably the bill was intended as a way of improving the reputation of saloonkeepers.”