I feel strangely normal.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.