Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.