Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks.