nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.

Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.