There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.