Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.

Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.