It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

dogs and angels are not very far apart

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

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.