A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.