Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.

A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.

Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.