Life is short, break the rules.

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.