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 fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

We are all museums of fear.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.