A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Salvation Creek flows till date, endless tears of motherly love and manly regret.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.

I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times.

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.