Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.