To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.