What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.