Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

My big fish must be somewhere.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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.