War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

Misery will never be your destiny. Your mind deserves joy in abundance, but it's your responsibility to constantly feed the right words and beliefs to it.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.