Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

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

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.