Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

Even the strongest man needs friends.