They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -

You have my soul and I have your money