Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

When necessity speaks it demands.

You can't be everything for another person.

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.