I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Shame has poor memory.