The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

Never mistake movement for action

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.