Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.