I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

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

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.

There is light somewhere.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.