I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God.