Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.
I had no Freedom. I had nothing.
Let’ em learn or let’ em die.
I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren’t true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing.
I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don’t know. I’m already tired.
I was a bore and didn’t know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn’t.
Something that never happens anywhere at any time.
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn’t be.
I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.
Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
I knew it would be you.
But she projected vitality – you knew that she was there.
I didn’t feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can’t say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.