Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours

I write to reach eternity

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

You ought to pause and enjoy the peace in the moment.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

You can always do more than you think you can.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

Every production must resemble its author.

Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.