It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?