If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.