Love breaks my bones and I laugh

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.