If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.