the sea is made of blood
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.
It began as a mistake.
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.