If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

God is the one subject of reality. Take away the one subject and there is nothing real.

White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe. If they did... everything would be grey

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment