I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.