During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

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 wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.

She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.