To get a step up in the world, you could use a ladder, or you could use your connections. I prefer the latter.

“I have an ill-fitting jacket. It looks sick. It has an “I Voted” sticker on it,…”

“I gather wisdom like a net gathers fish. And the more fish I get in my net, the…”

“Shit goes out, and dick goes in. This is the way of the prisoner.”

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aq…”