Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.