I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.