Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.