I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.