I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

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

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.