The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.