Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Anything for a quiet life.