Olusegun

“Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Down on his luck, [the screenwriter] Michael Arlen went to New York in 1944. To drown his sorrows he paid a visit to the famous restaurant “21.” In the lobby, he ran into Sam Goldwyn, who offered the somewhat impractical advice that he should buy racehorses. At the bar Arlen met Louis B. Mayer, an old acquaintance, who asked him what were his plans for the future. “I was just talking to Sam Goldwyn ...” began Arlen. “How much did he offer you? ”interrupted Mayer. “Not enough,” he replied evasively. “Would you take fifteen thousand for thirty weeks?” asked Mayer. No hesitation this time. “Yes,” said Arlen.”
― Clifton Fadiman, The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

“The thing about being dead, Mr. Lehman, is that there's no future in it.”
― Richard North Patterson, The Lasko Tangent

“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See