Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

Inside skull vast as outside skull

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

You too must seek the sun.

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved