Don’t wait for the good woman. She doesn’t exist.
Death doesn’t matter but the ultimate inconvenience of near-death is worse than galling.
Creation is like anything else good: you have to wait on it; ambition has killed more artists than indolence.
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
But most men, fortunately, aren’t writers, or even cab drivers, and some men – many men – unfortunately aren’t anything.
But it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.
But isn’t there always one good thing to look back on? Think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you then you know it’s for something else.
Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.
Bad writing’s like bad women: there’s just not much you can do about it.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
