Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)

Love is the intoxication of God.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.