stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.