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.

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

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

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

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

Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.