Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

There is no rule on how to write.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.