Michael Morrison

“I’ve stepped on too many toes on the way down.”
― Oscar Levant

“I had always resented sleep as an intrusion on my nocturnal self-pity”
― Oscar Levant, A Smattering of Ignorance

“Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each with his pocket full of pennies. A politician walks around the outside of the circle, taking a penny from each person. No one minds; who cares about a penny? When he has gotten all the way around the circle, the politician throws fifty cents down in front of one person, who is overjoyed at the unexpected windfall. The process is repeated, ending with a different person. After a hundred rounds everyone is a hundred cents poorer, fifty cents richer, and happy.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.”
― Oscar Levant