I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

There is no rule on how to write.