A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Comedy is music.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.