“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.”

“Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”

“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner”

“There have only been two geniuses in the world Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”