People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.