i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.