the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.