I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

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?

I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.