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

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.