It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.