Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.