Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.