Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.