pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.