Authors and actors and artists and such - never know nothing, and never know much.
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back
Never complain, never explain.
Excuse my dust.
Trapped like a trap in a trap
I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Big brother is watching you.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in god as personally dislike him.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, i'm a drinker with a writing problem.
The two most beautiful words in the english language are 'cheque enclosed.