Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

History is littered with dead good men

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else