“That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.”

“The pain night will be ended
And separation pain will be remedied
Unaware of this fact that this night is so long
And from that night to morning there are hundred years.”

“This book was dictated to Benoni B. Gattell at intervals between the years 1912 and 1932. Since then it has been worked over again and again. Now, in 1946, there are few pages that have not been at least slightly changed.”

“The so-called "peace" is an interval between wars.”

“It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.”

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”

“Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?”

“The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations.”

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

“A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.”