Quotes from Gregory Mcdonald

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

Even paranoids have enemies.

Pardon my pants. I'm fresh from an axe murder.

You don't. You don't accept it. You don't think about it. You just leave it out there somewhere, like a part of town you never visit. You put the anger, the rage, the fury in another part of town, and you never visit it.

Leave my copy alone. You don't know what you're doing.

A double extra-dry martini," Thadeus Lowry said to the waiter. "I just shot a man through the head." "Very good, sir," said the waiter.

I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.

Cocky spilled a little of the tea on the folded towel Flynn had on the edge of the desk for just that purpose—for Cocky to spill on it. "That's lovely," said Flynn.