Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.

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 for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

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