Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

You’re not interested in her because by your definition she isn’t real. But your brain doesn’t know the difference. It’s all just chemicals firing and testosterone giving you a hard-on.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.