Fiction is an improvement on life
Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. W...
what you werewill not happen again.the tigers have found meand I do not care.
I always felt it wouldpass.I listened to the charges against meknowing some of them to be truebut certainly notimportant enoughto become the target ofviolence, envy,vengeance.I thought it would surely...
take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning
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.
People run from rain butsitin bathtubs full ofwater.
It's colder than hell (yes) butthe blankets are thin,and the pulled-down shadesare as full of holes as love is.
In this roomthe hours of lovestill make shadows.
In this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck
How come you're so ugly?my life has hardly been pretty — the hospitals, the jails, the jobs, the women, the drinking. some of my critics claim that i have deliberately inflicted myself with pain. i wi...
Beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody n...
Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
You have to die a few times before you can reallylive.
Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created hate we had a standard utility when God created me...
The Genius Of The Crowdthere is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman being to supply any given army on any given dayand the best at murder are those who preach against itand...
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
My ambition is handicapped by laziness
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun
In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, j...