“I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.”

“If your parents never had children, chances are you wont either.”

“The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about ...”

“I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.”

“William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.”

“Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.”

“What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!”

“If you lock the door on sorrow,how will it leave your heart?”

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“While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.”

“We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense of the sacredness of his calling, or is reminded...”

“My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.”

“I dont want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now Im none of those things, and...”

“The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!”

“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world e...”