Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.