I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.