He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

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.

At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

(I must tell my Hon. Friend Miss Janet Fookes) that although I have always been attracted to her I have never actually dared ask her whether she would go to bed with me.

We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

Sometimes you definitely need to just let go. You need to sort of forget everything.