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.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

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

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

No man can discover his own talents.