It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

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.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Language is the only homeland.

I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.