To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

nobody ever finds the one

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.