“Beauty always wins friends.”

“It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.”

“Can one man's madness be another's real life?”

“I have marked in traveling how lonely houses change their expression as you come near, pass, and leave them. Some frown, others smile. The Bible buildings had life of their own and human diseases; the priests cursed or blessed them as men.”

“Houses seem to remember,' said he. 'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.”

“Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.”

“I never lie ― I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked them up. I fall in love quickly, it's a high that rivals drugs for a while. I am monogamous, but I always cheated with depression before the relationship fell apart. Addicts need best friends, healthy people need healthy relationships.”