I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

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.

If you would create something, you must be something.

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story.

Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.

Don't waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There's no time for that nonsense.

The present is all you have for your certain possession.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music.

Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.