Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.