He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and fou... - P.G. Wodehouse
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."
"One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation."
"[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)"
"There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
"As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight."
"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose."