Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.