i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

too often, the only escape is sleep

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

I had no Freedom. I had nothing.