Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

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

Yes, they have more money.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.