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

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.

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.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.