I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

Cheer up the worst is yet to come.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.