The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

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

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.