... 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.

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.