Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

If you only show me a part of you, I'll only love that part.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

We're not earthly beings any more… we're cosmic beings.

I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.

What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.