I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.

I sit here drunk now. 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 without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

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

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.