“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.”
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.”
“I would rather be ashes than dust!”
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect.”
“Love is a madness; if not a madness, it is not love.”
“The world fears a new experience more than anything.”
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
“To say that one never errs is to say that one never does anything.”
“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.”
“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.”