some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

You were destroyed by what you befriended.

I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.