Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself

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.

…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.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.