Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?
I don’t know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.
That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
The less I needed, the better I felt.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it.
Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
New Year’s Eve always terrifies me.
I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.
I have no time for things that have no soul.
I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.