Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Reality itself is too twisted.

"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many drugs.... They're all around us.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.