The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.

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.

He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his soul was still there in her pleasure.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

Get out and about. Rather than going to the same gym and doing the same thing, it's a good opportunity to try different things.

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.