I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
I don’t like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody’s doin’ it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.
It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
Don’t wait for the good woman. She doesn’t exist.
Death is nothing, brother, it’s life that’s hard.
I hope that death contains less than this.
Those who escape hell, however, never talk about it, and nothing much bothers them after that.
If you want to create, you’ll create...
When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn’t have much to argue about.