Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over .

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher .

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.