Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

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

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. sitting up in my bed the lights out, hearing the outside sounds, lifting my cheap bottle of wine, letting the warmth of the grape enter me as I heard the rats moving about the room, I preferred them to humans. being lost, being crazy maybe is not so bad if you can be that way undisturbed. New Orleans gave me that. nobody ever called my name.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.