The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.