Find what you love and let it kill you.

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

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

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

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.