Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.