This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma’am. I’m not worth more than fifteen.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.

Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.