Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless

When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.