It began as a mistake.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

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.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late