“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

You can still die when the sun is shining.

And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out.

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn’t help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.