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.

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

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.