Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

The "styles" are a lie.

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.