The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.””Hell,” I said, “I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?””Yes. I want to ruin you.””Good,” I said. “That’s what I want too.

The first draft of anything is shit.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.Hell, I said, I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?Yes. I want to ruin you.Good, I said. That’s what I want too.