Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.