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.
Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.
If you let them kill you, they will.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.
Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn’t become so obvious yourself.
I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can’t be quite senseless because you are aware that it’s senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?