of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )