I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

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.

Sin is all wrong doing.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.