We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.