“It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!”

“To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.”

“His beard might once have reached to his waist, but his waist had grown off and left his beard high and dry.”

“A cigarette is like a hamster, harmless until you stick it in your mouth and light it on fire.”

“Odd how being away could teach you about home.”

“I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night”

“The First Billion is the Hardest”