Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.