Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

• First the grub, then the morals.
• Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
• On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
• He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
• Why be a man when you can be a success
• Why be a man when you can be a success?
• Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
• For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
• Righteous people have no sense of humor.
• Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.