the tigers have found me and I do not care.

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!