If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
History is not was, it is.
I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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