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

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

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.