When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.