Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.