But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Fashions in sin change.