places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

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.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight