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.

To be young is the only religion.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

We use such big words to move nowhere.

You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.