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“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”
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“[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”
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“I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.”
Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview with James West and Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015. 
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“Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.”
Source : Letter to a former band-mate in Fraternity, 'Uncle' John Ayres, c. 1979.
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“Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!”
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“Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.”
Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Not all prisons have bars”
Source : Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.238, Pan Macmillan
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“I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.”
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“I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.”
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“When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.”
