I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

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

You were destroyed by what you befriended.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

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

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.