A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

The only consistent people are the dead