He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.