That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.