Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn’t know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
It’s 4:30 in the morning, it’s always 4:30 in the morning.
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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.