"The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion."

"Smoking. . . is a shocking thing, blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes and noses, and having the same thing done to us."

"I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself."

"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."

"I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity."

"I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book."

"Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it."

"I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool."

"I don't have a trainer. Crazy, right? But I don't need anyone to motivate me. I love exercise, even things like the elliptical and stretching."

"I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant."

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

"Nothing had really changed....The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind."

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

"A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

"I love going out and doing new things."

"I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love."

"Sex is my favorite sport. I'm always in the mood."

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act."