Never? That’s a hard word when it comes to whisky. - Theodore Dreiser

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

what matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?

"So they decided against me. Now I will have to go through that door after all, — like all those others. They'll draw the curtains for me, too. Into that other room — then back across the passage — saying good-bye as I go, like those others. I will not be here any more." He seemed to be going over each step in his mind — each step with which he was so familiar, only now, for the first time, he was living it for himself.