Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

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