and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter
The worst thing, he told me,is bitterness, people end up sobitter.
What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.
Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twice, there might be something up there besides the cunt, there might be something really marvellous th...
If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair on a combin the dissolving moonlight.
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCeline going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being humanVillon expelled from Paris f...
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.
She wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.
There's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.
Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)
during my worst timeson the park benchesin the jailsor living withwhoresI always had this certaincontentment-I wouldn't call ithappiness-it was more of an innerbalancethat settled forwhatever was occu...
We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.