You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

I feel strangely normal.