Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.