It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

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.

Love wins, love always wins.

Right now I may not have it all, but I know my future is bright because as long as I live there is hope for my situation.

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.