"Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame."

“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”

“If you want to cry, then cry. Decide by yourself whether you are important or not. Even if other people value you, nobody can do anything for you. Ultimately, it’s your problem so if you live without regrets, then over time I think that your problems would disappear.”

“I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.”

Source : "Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night" by Chuck Bowden, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2014.

“Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.”

“He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the”

“This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.”

“I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)”

“mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.”