“There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.”

Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.

I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Be careful of love. It’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Around 20. I’d been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn’t be successful until I let the street life go.

I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.

You’re a liar!” he turned around, his black eyes snapping. “i’m also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when i’m telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You’ve got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.