A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

The number one price of ignorance is destruction.

If after giving it all that you possibly can, you do lose to the competition, then they really deserve the win.

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.