nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

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

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.