"Every man should have a hobby."

"Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression."

"One cat just leads to another."

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth..."

"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?"

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

"Every day above ground is a good day."

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."

"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."