Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.