“This is the real thing, brains lying on the ground, and the spectators love it.”

“It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.”

“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”

“The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.”

“Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.”

“Lying, not love, is the fundamental indication of humanity.”

“I would think
Until I found
Something
I can never find;
– Something
Lying
On the ground,
In the bottom
Of my mind.”

“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”

“When love's the culmination / of everything you feel / then it's the only thing that's precious / it's the only thing that's real”

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”