“I have Ten Commandments. The first nine, thou shall not bore. The tenth is, thou shall have right to final cut.”

“Every train carries its cargo of sin.”

“It’s not the men in your life that count, it’s the life in your men”

“I like my convictions undiluted, same as I do my bourbon.”

“I wonder if it isn’t a curse to go through life wised up like you and me.”

” Sex always has something to do with it.”

” The most mysterious mysteries are people, and usually people who don’t seem mysterious at all.”

“If you’re a fighter, you can’t walk away from a fight”

“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me”

“There’s nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you’re trying to be twenty-five”

“Home is where you come when you run out of places.”

“What I like and what I need are two different things”

“That was the most fun I’ve ever had without laughing”

“Character is what you are in the dark”

“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road”

“You get what you settle for”

“A man tells stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal”

“The past has always had a great charisma for me”