Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

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

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.