I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

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

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.