I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them