It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal .