and love is a word used too much and much too soon.

New Year's Eve always terrifies me.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

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.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.