Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.