Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself.
Belane, are you nuts?"Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
Born into thisInto hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to dieInto lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guiltyInto a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed...
You've got to burnstraight up and downand then maybe sidewisefor a whileand have your gutsscrambled by abullyand the demonicladies,you've got to runalong the edge of madnessteetering,you've got to sta...
They pulled Ezra through the streets in a wooden cage. Blake was sure of God. Villon was a mugger. Lorca sucked cock. T. S. Eliot worked a teller's cage
There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Stay with the beer.beer is continuous blood.a continuous lover.
Morning night and noonthe traffic moves throughand the murder and treacheryof friends and loversand all the peoplemove through you.pain is the joy of knowingthe unkindest truththat arrives without war...
Mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
It was like any other relationship, there wasjealousy on both sides,there were split-ups and reconciliations.there were also fragmented moments ofgreat peace and beauty.I often tried to get away from...
Each man's hell is in a different place:
Dogs and angels are notvery far apart
You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive?I don't know. I'm already tired.
You can’t beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and the more often you learn to do it,the more light there will be.
Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us:...
The Laughing Heartyour life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is a light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be...
It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
I'm going, she said. I love you but you'recrazy, you're doomed.
I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it m...