Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Despair is anger with no place to go.
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.