We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it? - David Mamet

Flattery takes away the capacity of the listener to make a rational, unbiased opinion.

That's fucked. That's fucked. You don't look at the fucking percentage. You look at the gross.

in this great land, found his crouched, finger-pointing yentism merely the performance of a deeper truth and moral imperative, reducible to “stop working, tax the productive until they stop working, and let the country go to hell.