It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

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