The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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

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.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

A bottle of wine was good company.