The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I drink to make other people more interesting

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth

In order to write about life, first you must live it.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way

The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places