We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

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

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.