“a combustion engine of ambition and disappointment.”
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine”
“[R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.”
“(Rome) is a Metropolitan Museum of Art the size of Manhattan, no roof, no display cases, and half a million combustion engines rumbling in the hallways.”
“Ambition...the original of vices;Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit”
“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”