Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap...
Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.
Learn, he says, that there will be hours, daysand months ahead of feeling absolutely terribleand nothing can change that; neither new
It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.
In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought.And then I did.
I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knifeinsidebecause there was no alternative except to hide as longas possible
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want a...
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the r...
But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
Baby, I said, I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man...
Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.
the impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly.