I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

If you let them kill you, they will

one more creature dizzy with love

Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

sometimes I hate you," she said.