Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.