Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.