An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.