Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Fashion Week is like Christmas.

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.