Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
I hate writing, I love having written.
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
Writing well is the best revenge.
It was written without fear and without research.
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
Women and elephants never forget.
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
But I don't give up; I forget why not.
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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