“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it’s not much use.”

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

All thinking men are atheists.

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

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

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

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

We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again.

If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion.

Nobody wants to really play bad cricket.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there’s also a lot of good.