I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.