There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

and love is a word used too much and much too soon.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.