Justice? -- You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

[T]here is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.