Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.