Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.