too often, the only escape is sleep

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.