the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

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?

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.