I have been treated better than I should have been – not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it.
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
If you can’t write the next line, well, you’re dead. The past doesn’t matter.
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested in what most people have to say, or what they want to do – mostly with my time.
If you are going to try, go all the way or don’t even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn’t.
It didn’t pay to trust another human being. Humans didn’t have it, whatever it took.
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
I wasn’t a misanthrope and I wasn’t a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.