After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

They were beautiful nothings

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock