He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger$$$ losing a friend you'd never really had.

Mendacity is a system that we live in$$$ declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other."

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying$$$ Give me your poor$$$ your tired$$$ your huddled masses. She's got a baseball bat and yelling "You want a piece of me?"

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Even speech was for them a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

Her religious beliefs went first$$$ for all she could ask of a god$$$ or of immortality$$$ was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder$$$ [her] sincerity became less necessary.

To get into the best society$$$ nowadays$$$ one has either to feed people$$$ amuse people$$$ or shock people - that is all!

Time is a waste of money.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young$$$ of physical weakness in the old.