Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.