Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.