But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

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

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.