I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.