Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

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!