I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don’t want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn’t know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.
Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.
Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.
With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
Simplicity is always the secret to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.
As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don’t realize it, then you’re finished.
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.
Sundays kill more people than bombs.