she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

There's nothing unusual about love.

It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.

Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.