Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

They write them long because they can't write them short.