It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

A woman should be an illusion

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.