There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

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