“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had...”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. people so tired mutilated either by love or no love. people just are not good t...”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.”

“alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the...”

“the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever”

“if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”