Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.