We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.