But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

Never mistake movement for action

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Write drunk; edit sober.

The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.