Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.