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

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.