I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on