Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow
Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.
Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.
Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.
Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.