There was an undoubted affinity in his mind between the two great passions of his life: revolution and good brew. The taste of one immediately brought to mind the other.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.

They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.