That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.

in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.