Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!

To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

So many men so many opinions.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.

Believe in yourself and others will believe in you.