You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.