An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.