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.

People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

It's just that the grape has me down.

It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.