We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .

and love is a word used too much and much too soon.