Man is a gaming animal.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.