That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires