As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.