You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.