Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

I am a daylight atheist.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

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.

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.