“Life is too short to be so circumspect.”

“I think life's too long to do anything that we know is wrong before we begin.”

“Without me, without me, Everyday's misery.But with me - am I wrong? No night is too long!”

“You do not put off things because they threaten you, because you are afraid; It was a rule of life.”

“The safest way to live is first, inherit money, second be born without a taste for liquor, third, have a legitimate job that keeps you busy, fourth, marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities, fifth, join some big church, sixth, don't live too long.”

“Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so.”

“Isak Dinesen said that life is no more than a process for turning healthy young puppies into mangy old dogs and man but an exquisite instrument for converting the red wine of Shiraz into urine.”