You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.