People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

this time has finished me.

Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.