“Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.”

“the truth may hurt initially, but it heals much better than the rigid scar caused by a lie!”

“Socrates had it backward. He thought the unexamined life is not worth living. I think no one's life holds up to examination. The more time you spend thinking the more you notice that everyone else is doing something better or more important than you.”

“The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Dow”

“...she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath.”

“if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!”