Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
I wanted the whole world or nothing.
The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.
It’s better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
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.