You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.