Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world..

Anything you can settle with money is cheap..

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to..

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end..