t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.