Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon....
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.
I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.