Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.