It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

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

My, my. A body does get around.

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

Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.