Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

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

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

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