It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.