“He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.”

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”

“You surpise me, because people nearly always force you to ask, don't they?”

“If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.”

“For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.”

“...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.”

“But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.”