"The first draft of anything is shit."

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

"Nobody lives forever, but we can live well enough and long enough to be a damn good example."

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual."