When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.