I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

Character is plot, plot is character.