If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

I have no time for things that have no soul.