"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."

"I often think that women are the only sex that can really love. We men are too self-centered."

"I'm not a writer, I'm a drunk."

"Forgive me for my grandiosity, and for my occasional bursts of self-pity."

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."