Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.