our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.