Forgotten is forgiven.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
