I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.

Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.