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.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

We are here to laugh at the odds.