you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.