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

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity