One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.