It was not that he was unintelligent. It was just that he was not emotionally able to comprehend democracy. — Philip José Farmer

Styles was an old Mississippi pilot, a handsome youth, no liar, though given to inflating facts.

Actors didn’t have to be politicians, but politicians had to be actors.

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.