And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.