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.

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

she’s mad, but she’s magic.