Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

Without literature, life is hell.