“My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.” MindSexWaterSleepPleasureColdDrinkCompareCigaretteLiquorThirstySpunCold Water Book:This Immortal Source: This Immortal
“There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.” CertainPleasureClassCriticismCriticsSuperiorsCompareRangeMediocrityGratification Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.