My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.