Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

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.

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.