Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

I am loving. I am forgiving.I am at peace.

Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

The game honors toughness

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

Be quick without hurrying.