I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

To be young is the only religion.

I feel strangely normal.