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

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

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

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.