Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.