I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

I am completely half afraid to think.

Another day gone and no jokes.

He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.