Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

The most clear and present danger that is known to man at this time is the Karaoke machine. It is sinister in its design. For if there is any contrivance which might subtly be used to convince a man to capitulate that there are circumstances where he might desire to give up his rights under the First Amendment, I have yet to make it’s discovery.

If you would not be forgotten,
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worthy reading,
Or do things worth the writing

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” —Stephen King

“Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about ‘a’ man.” —E.B. White

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.—Thomas Jefferson

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.—Winston Churchill