Two Things

Leonard Bernstein: “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

First Refuge

In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Publicity

Brendan Behan“All publicity is good publicity except your own obituary.”

–Brendan Behan