there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

Fiction is an improvement on life

I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk.