Drinking is a way of ending the day.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.