I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.