“Warden had a theory about women: For years he had been asking them to sleep with him, the ones that interested him. "Will you go to bed with me?" and they were always shocked, even the rummy barfli...”

“The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the s...”

“I write to reach eternity”

“Every man has a right to kill himself.”

“...legal procedure has always tacitly been concerned with human relations, rather than abstract justice, and that consequently in spite of the legal codes it is really the human relations underneat...”

“It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.”

“To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.”

“It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.”

“Expect nothing and life will be velvet.”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”