Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.