God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

It's just that the grape has me down.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.