Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

I have no time for things that have no soul.

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.