But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.