“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way downî
– Ray Bradbury

[Thanks mom!]

“Jazz from people without a heroin problem isn’t that good.”
-Liz Winstead.

“It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”
– Tallulah Bankhead

“If you want to get into the movie business but you don’t have any special talent or ability, become a producer.”
– Monster producer Clark Peterson

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
– Robert Benchley

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
– Roald Dahl

“People are always telling me their life stories and they always tell me they have done so because I am a good listener. In fact I am a terrible listener, I don

“Finally Monk said to him, ‘You know, that note is wrong.’ [Tenor saxophonist Paul] Jeffrey said, ‘Monk, why didn

Dear readers,

No, I haven’t given up writing actual blog entries entirely, in favor of amassing inane collections of quotes; instead, I’m simply and completely buried under a ridiculous and unprecedented pile of work. Things will return to their normal pithy self as soon as I can dig my way back out.

jbn

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
– Joseph Conrad

“I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I’m so steady, I don’t move for months.”
– WC Fields

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
– Abe Lincoln

“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.”
– William Shakespeare