To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.