I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
I build only living stones--men.
Machination is worth more than force.
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
No clock is more regular than the belly.
If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.
I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.