I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.