it's better to be happy...if you can..!!

I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.