Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

Courage is grace under pressure.