I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

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.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.