Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.