There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.