Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped. Then the...
Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.
But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress…a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.
At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidenti...
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delig...
Your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and yo...
When the phone ringsI too would like to hear wordsthat might easesome of this.
We were in her big oakbedfacing southso much of the rest of thetimethat I memorizedeach wrinkle in thedrapesand especiallyall the cracks in theceiling.I used to play games withher with that ceiling.se...
Unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket,unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide or murder,don't do it.unless the sun inside you isburning your gut,don't do it.when it is truly tim...
They simply never understand,do they,that sometimes solitudeisone of the most beautiful
There is a loneliness in this world so greatthat you can see it in the slow movement ofthe hands of a clock.people so tiredmutilatedeither by love or no love.people just are not good to each otherone...
The area dividing the brain and the soulis affected in many ways byexperience –some lose all mind and become soul:insane.some lose all soul and become mind:intellectual.some lose both and become:accep...
Take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtyping
Pull a string, a puppet moves ...each man must realizethat it can all disappear veryquickly:the cat, the woman, the job,the front tire,the bed, the walls, theroom; all our necessitiesincluding love,re...
People diminish me; the longer I sit and listen to themthe more empty I feel but I don't getthe idea that they feel empty, I feelthat they enjoy the sound from theirmouths.
Nobody can save you butyourself.you will be put again and againinto nearly impossiblesituations.they will attempt again and againthrough subterfuge, guise andforceto make you submit, quit and/or die q...
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,don't swim in the same slough.invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.invent yourself and then reinvent yoursel...
Great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after...
And getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it