Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.
There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.
where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but...
the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart
The area dividing the brain and the soul Is affected in many ways by experience --Some lose all mind and become soul:insane.Some lose all soul and become mind:intellectual.
there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too clever, I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep.I say, I know that you're there,so don't besad.then I put him back,bu...
There's a light somewhere.It may not be much light butit beats the darkness.
I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios . . . We were all in it togeth...
You boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.
I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.
Love is for real men.
I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make f...