San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Be yourself, until you bleed.

Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.