Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

There's music in everything, even defeat

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it