Never eat at a place called 'Moms', but if the only other place in town has a sign that says 'Eats', go back to Moms.

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 I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!

A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.

Whats more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.