Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

Only the impossible lasts forever.

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.