If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.