Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men in intelligence or race so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.