I've been asked if I ever get the DTs. I don't know. It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin.

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 know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.