To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

I'll call New York for some cash.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.