God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

Man is not made for defeat.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.