Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.