Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.