“Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third”
“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.”
“Of your life, you sleep one third, work one third, and worry one third. If you want to change your life, what third would you change?”
“I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.”
“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”
“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”