bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.

Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.