The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
I have built my organization upon fear.
Public service is my motto.
It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.
I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
Vote early and vote often.
A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
Big doors swing on little hinges.
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.