"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all."

Cleaver, Eldridge on Prison
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"We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self."

Connolly, Cyril on Prison
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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Eliot, T. S. on Pride
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"If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on Work
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"Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Journalism and Journalists
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"Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money."

Brown, Craig on Journalism and Journalists
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"Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!"

Broun, Heywood on Journalism and Journalists
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"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Arnold, Matthew on Journalism and Journalists
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"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on Beginning
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"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."

Proverb, Spanish on Tomorrow
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."

Connolly, Cyril on Journalism and Journalists
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."

Duras, Marguerite on Journalism and Journalists
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"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."

Allen, George on Job
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"Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out."

Ormont, Jules on Job
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat."

Tomlin, Lily on Job
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"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole."

Unknown, Source on Job
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"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

Unknown, Source on Job
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"Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

Bennett, Arnold on Change
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"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

Frost, Robert on God
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on Life and Death
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"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Frost, Robert on Communication
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"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."

Roethke, Theodore on Adversity
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"Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on Writers and Writing
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"Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Writers and Writing
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"“ ‘As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing,’ I will be a writer.’”"

Thompson, Hunter S. on writers and writing
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"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

Thompson, Hunter S. on Journalism and Journalists
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"Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism -- and the best journalists have always known this. True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it -- or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character."

Thompson, Hunter S. on Journalism and Journalists
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"I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself."

Kelly, Barbara on Smoking
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"But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself."

Hoban, Russell on Smoking
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"Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist."

Harris, Martyn on Smoking
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"You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever."

Goodman, Ellen on Writers and Writing
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on Writers and Writing
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"Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight."

Ferber, Edna on Writers and Writing
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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."

Connolly, Cyril on Writers and Writing
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"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."

Canetti, Elias on Writers and Writing
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"Great writers are the saints for the godless."

Brookner, Anita on Writers and Writing
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."

Moliere on Smoking
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"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on Smoking
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"There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes."

Whitehorn, Katharine on Smoking
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"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

Thompson, Hunter S. on Advice
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