It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

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.