It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it.

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

And then there was an explosion.

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.