"I've been composing this speech for the last two weeks and I'm going to deliver it.

I'm not going to have it wasted.

I've unconsciously been rehearsing it every place I went.

Even up in Flatbush, showing a man the superior advantages of that yellow-mud district, I found myself repeating sentence number twelve.

It's been the first thing I thought of in the morning and the last thing I thought of at night.