You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.

I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

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.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.