You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man ...wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can say anything you want, 'cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death ... which you ain't gonna... get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years befo...re you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In... the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonabl...e soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... you have to have been desperately unhappy before you can play comedy, so that nothing can frighten you any more. And you can't... do tragedy before you know absolute happiness, because having known that, you are safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in ye...ars. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich--that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write ...seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it--don't cheat with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder... a man works, at brute labour, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »