Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.