“If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.”

“You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.”

“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”

“Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.”

“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.”

“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises….
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays”

“I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.”

“You will tell me what you know now," he said.

"Or?"

He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.”

“You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.”

“I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.”