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

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.