A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.