I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.
The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable.
Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.
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.
If I hadn’t been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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.