If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.