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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.