In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.