Sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many wi...
To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine,...
Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.
Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.
And love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.
What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It...
we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.
The tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and
Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.
Regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesadde...
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, n...
My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.