I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.